idhayathil oruvan

Recently in Kollywood, there have been many movies following the trend of playing some successful old audio songs / music (mostly by Ilayaraja) in the background to attract the audience. This idea was proved to be successful as people are willing to hear classical super hits and cherish their memories.



The movie "idhayathil oruvan" that got released on April 1st 2011 is a unique creation in the recent times of the kollywood industry by Namakkal MGR. Being the hero, director and story - screenplay - dialogue writer, NMGR gets the full credit for the successful creation of the movie. His hard work is reflected in every scene of the movie.

Right from the title song of the movie, NMGR has brought out the sweet memories of MGR and made us feel as if we are watching MGR's movie. Whenever MGR's superhit songs were played in the background, it makes us feel excited. They could have added couple of full songs of MGR remixed instead of all new songs.



A simple story line of clashes between the hero and pannaiyar (villain) living in namakkal adds to the advantage of the movie. As usual the pannaiyar's daughter is the heroine of the movie but she has very less role to play.

A couple of silambattam fights by NMGR were good to watch. Nagesh's comedy role in our old MGR movie is also being enacted as NMGR's brother. But he also dint have much of role to play leaving very less comedy for the audience to laugh.

The movie getting released during the election time in Tamil Nadu, one would think about the direct politics and double meaning dialogues in the movie. But, NMGR has done an excellent job in writing sharp and clear dialogues bringing out clear messages that were intended like our old MGR movie.

Overall, the movie is a unique family entertainer and a must watch for MGR fans.