Cast: Bharath, Meera Jasmine, Prem

Direction: VZ Durai

Music: Srikanth Deva

V Z Durai is back again with his film Nepali. The movie keeps you entertained, while at the same time leaves you with a desire for more in view of the fact that the Tamil audience got accustomed watching similar concepts for the past several decades.

The director has tried stringing together three different stories. The movie revolves around Karthik (Bharath) who is a software engineer. He meets Priya (Meera Jasmine) at a hill station and love blossoms between them. As is the usual scenario in Tamil films, the girl’s parents do not consent for their marriage and the couple walk out of their houses and get married. Here, trouble comes to them in the form of a police officer who is a sexual maniac. He tries to molest Priya and she gets killed. The blame falls on Karthik and he lands in jail. There he meets a Nepali social worker (Govind Namdeo), who voices for women harassed in workplace. With the inspiration he gets from the Nepali, Karthik comes out of the prison to punish those who misbehave with women at workplace. He bumps off a computer engineer, a professor and a doctor dressed as a Nepali youth. DCP Gautham (Prem) takes up the task of cracking the serial murders. During the film’s climax, Bharath runs into a subway followed by policemen; gunshots are heard and then…the audience are left for a surprise!

Bharath has performed his triple role to his best. After playing the role of a mass commercial role in Palani, it needless to say that Bharath has gone miles ahead to prove himself. The Nepali make-up suits him well but at places it looks a mismatch. Meera Jasmine looks a bit mature for her role, but has done her role in a graceful way.  As a tough cop, Goutham looks typically suited for the role. 

Technically, the movie deserves praise for Mathi’s camera and Madan Gunadeva’s editing. Music by Srikanth Deva is a definite plus point, especially with the ‘Hey You’ being a hit. 

The film has the shades of the films like ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’, ‘Manmadhan’ and ‘Ghajini’. The second half is filled with bloodshed violence and gore. The film suffers with the weak backbone of a shoddy script and at times it is hard to believe that the movie is an outcome of an industry veteran like V Z Durai. With more attention to the second half, Nepali could have scaled the peaks.