Movie: Nadigayin Diary
Star Cast: Suresh Krishna, Sana Khan, Aravind Akash
Direction: Anil Kumar
Production: P J Thomas
Music: Berny-Ignatius
Storyline
The film industry seems obsessed with personalities, especially those it has thrown up. The lives and times of actresses have always kept the rumour mills always interested. Sexy siren Silk Smitha was one of the many whose times have always had people interested. If Bollywood chose to come up with a film based on her life, then ‘Oru Nadigayin Diary’ seems to be the southern industry’s answer to ‘The Dirty Picture.’
Supriya (Sana Khan) hailing from a poor family, wants to become an actress. She manages to impress a film director, who casts her in his project and changes her name to ‘Smitha’. She does a good job and becomes a popular starlet overnight. Enters RK (Suresh Krishna), a rich entrepreneur. He bails Smitha out of some trouble she finds herself in. She is told to stay in his bungalow and slowly the two get close to each other and fall in love. RK begins to take care of her professional commitments.
There is a twist when Subin, son of RK, makes an entry. Smitha is shocked to know that RK is married and has a grown-up son too. As it happens, Subin is attracted to Smitha immediately and falls for. What happens then forms the rest of the movie.
Script Review
Comparisons with Vidya Balan’s ‘The Dirty Picture’ will be inevitable but the director claimed to have chronicled the life of Silk Smitha, who rose from a humble background to immense popularity and faced intense scrutiny and pressures from several sides. The film came in with a lot of expectations but does it live up to them is the question. It does alternate between good and mediocre and the pace doesn’t match up too. While the rise of Smitha happens rather steadily, her fall is shown as happening pretty quickly, which leaves audiences a bit puzzled.
Cast and Crew Analaysis
Sana Khan, who has been struggling to make an impact in Kollywood, has come up with a noteworthy performance and can expect to find some offers come her way. The model-turned-actress, it must be said has portrayed the hugely popular Silk Smitha to the best of her ability and needs to keep improving to be counted among the sought-after starlets. The performance of the other actors passes muster.
Positive Points:
Sana Khan’s performance and good Background music
Negative Points:
Story, screenplay and the way it has been executed
Verdict:
Nadigayin Diary – All hype and no substance
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Sachin says
May 28, 2013 at 3:43 pmEven after her demise, she is the darling of the masses! During her time, she was portrayed as a demi God of seductive acting, and now after these many years, her life is being depicted across in different languages. After Vidhya Balan’s “Dirty Picture” here comes Kollywood’s own version of Silk Smitha’s story and the tag line of the movie screams aloud as “This is as it is version of her story”. And why not, the screen writer is Kaloor Dennis, who has been writing more than ten of her films in the past. Directed by Anil the movie has Sana Khan donning the role of Silk Smitha, and the supporting cast includes Suresh Krishna, Arvind and Subin.
A Page out of the Diary:
As said, there are many versions of Silk’s story and this is yet another girl coming from very na�ve backgrounds to reach the top. Sanakhan is Pongkodi an orphan brought up by her Step mother, portrayed by Shanthi Williams. Through the hardships of life, she crawls and her life gets a U turn after she grabs the attention of a director who takes her to the city. He introduces her to one of the movies, which turns out to be a blockbuster thanks to her. She is christened as Sumitha and that’s when the climb to stardom weaves out.
Now Suresh Krishna is a millionaire businessman better known as RK. Sumitha falls in love with him crazily and slowly enough the couple get together as predicted. The movie flows enough predictably and the businessman slows puts the immense confidence on business and his all other personal commitments on her. Life is smooth for Sumitha as she settles down in one of his sprawling houses with luxury never a problem.
All hell breaks loose when RK’s son Subin also falls heads over heels on Sumitha. The lad is just in his college, and the vivacity of Silk’s is no match for his feelings, and he tries to grab her attention. When the millionaire comes to know of this, the plot unveils something surprising and the tale gets the much required grip.
Good and Bad:
To compare this movie with Vidhya Balan’s “Dirty Picture”, apart from the unfathomable oomph factor in both the movies, Oru Nadigayin Diary has a decent narration, thanks to the director. Though he screenplay is sluggish and you might wonder a lot of oomph from Sana, well this is Silk’s movie. Music is nothing to take notice of, with just whiskers of instruments, so is the background hardly ear catching.
Sana deserves a bit of appreciation for her role in this movie, as to take up and depict a bombshell of yesterday requires a lot of research and hard work; she manages to pass the litmus test. She oozes the dynamism pretty well and as usual the movie is full of ah’s and oh’s not to forget. However when you see her in distress in the early stages of the movie, it’s like a sexy siren bound for hardship and doesn’t even fit the scenario. The cinematography is uncanny and a lot of zooming on private parts without any justification, the notion is simply induced to showcase Silk’s glamour quotient.
Screenplay falls behind by a long way with losing steam in places, clearly missing the train by a long way. An honest attempt no doubt, however it misses the wow factor that Silk’s movie used to deliver those days. At the end of the day, it fails to make a complete impression, with only delivering the intention in places.
Verdict: Not a fitting plot to unveil Silk’s legacy!