Oru Nadigaiyin Vaakkumoolam

Oru Nadigaiyin Vaakkumoolam
Directed by Rajkrishna
Produced by Punnagai Poo Gheetha
Starring Sonia Agarwal
Sathan
Kabil
Music by Aathish
Cinematography Naga Krishnan
Production
company
SG Films Pvt Ltd
Release date
 10 February 2012
Country India
Language Tamil

Oru Nadigaiyin Vaakkumoolam (English: The Confessions of an Actress) is a 2012 Tamil drama film, written and directed by Rajkrishna. The film stars Sonia Agarwal in the lead role, with Kabil, Sathan, Urmila Unni and Kovai Sarala in supporting roles. Music for the film was composed by Aathish and the film opened to negative reviews in February 2012.[1][2]

Cast

Production

Rajkrishna chose to make a film focussing on the life of an actress and the downfall of her career, and approached Sonia Agarwal to enact the lead character.[3] Sonia accepted to work on the film after relating to script, stating that she also went through certain hardships during her time as an actress and lost weight to star in the film.[4][5] The actress however clarified to the media before release that the film was not based on her life or any other actress's life.[6]

The success of the Hindi film, The Dirty Picture (2011), which was based on the same theme, created extra publicity for the film.[7] Impressed with Sonia's performance during the shoot, Rajkrishna signed her on for his next film too, titled Achchamenna with Jithan Ramesh, but the film eventually did not materialise.[8]

Plot

The movie begins with a scribe ('Punnagai Poo' Geetha) searching for the actress Anjali (Sonia Agarwal). Anjali had disappeared after being a famous heroine. All searches to find this actress ended up as a failure. After the journalist finds her after many feats of hardships, there is a flashback revealing Anjali's travails. Being the daughter of a poor folk artiste Devarajulu ('Yogi' Devaraj), her mother has been going to places to make her daughter an actress and reached Kodambakkam. After painfully climbing stairs and being rejected in every studio in Kodambakkam and Vadapalani they agree on casting couch unhappily. However Anjali gets her heroine role and makes it her debut after a compromise. This leads to a greed change in her mother to get money and leaves her in debt. After being humiliated by people in the industry exploiting her, she takes on of the film's extreme decisions. Thus her discussions and other events lead up to the climax of the movie.

Release

The film opened to negative reviews in February 2012, with Behindwoods.com giving the film 1.5 out of 5 stars calling it a "pensive account", however the director claims that this is not only in Flim industry all working women have facing same issue.Basically RajKrishna was working as a reporter in Nakkeeran in earlier days and he wrote articles about the various actress article named as Oru nadigayin marupakkam. This makes him to make movie based on the actresses experience which they share with him. Even though we claim this is came after "Dirty Picture", but he is well known all the issues faced by actress in their life. That article and it was published in the mid of 2003-05. It is second movie for this director as his first movie "Pakadai" with Rajkiran was dropped due to unknown issues.[9] A critic from Sify.com noted "the narrative style is outdated, the proceedings are disjointed and the screenplay lacks any coherence or logic" and added "a theme that had the potential to be an engrossing tale turns out to be a dull fare with diluted and archaic approach".[10] A second critic from Sify.com noted that "a premise that has to be insightful, dark and disturbing falls flat with an amateurish direction, jarring music and background score, wrong supporting cast, tacky production values and an old fashioned presentation".[11] Likewise, The Hindu also gave the film a negative review, concluding the "script is weak and the dialogues repetitive".[12]

References

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