''Pattinapakkam'' is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language

thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...

written and directed by Jayadev. The film stars

Kalaiyarasan Kalaiyarasan Harikrishnan is an Indian actor, who works in the Tamil film industry. He has collaborated with directors Myshkin and Pa. Ranjith, with whom he worked in ''Madras'' (2014) for which he received acclaim for his performance. Career ...

and

Anaswara Kumar Anaswara Kumar is an Indian actress, who works in the Tamil film industry. She started her career with Arivazhaghan's sports thriller '' Vallinam'' (2014), though the romantic comedy '' Ego'' (2013) released first. She made her breakthrough po ...

in the leading roles, with

Chaya Singh Chaya Singh is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Tamil and Kannada films and television shows. She started her acting career in Kannada films and has worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali and Bhojpuri films. She has a reputation ...

and

John Vijay John Vijay (born 20 November 1976) is an Indian actor who plays supporting roles in Tamil films. He has also worked in a few Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada films. Career John Vijay did his M.Sc. in Visual Communication from Loyola College ...

in supporting roles. Featuring music composed by

Ishaan Dev Ishaan Dev better known as shaan is an Indian music composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music programmer and stage performer of South Indian industry. Discography As playback singer Albums See also *Mirchi Music Awar ...

, the film which began production in 2015 and met with a couple of unexpected delays, finally managed to release in theatres on 23 November 2018.

Cast

as Vetri *

as Mithra *

as Sheeba *

Manoj K. Jayan Manoj Kadampoothramadom Jayan also known as Manoj K.Jayan is an Indian actor of Malayalam and Tamil films. He has also done a few Telugu and Kannada films and has also acted in a Bollywood film. Manoj has won three Kerala State Film Award for Se ...

as James Thomas *

Yog Japee Yog Japee is an Indian actor who has appeared in character roles. He made his breakthrough playing the supporting role of Ranjith in ''Billa'' (2007), before playing a role of a police officer in ''Soodhu Kavvum'' (2013) and a negative role in ...

as Sathya *

as Samuthiram * R. Sundarrajan *

Charle Velmurugan Thangasamy Manohar (born 6 March 1960), professionally credited as Charle, is an Indian actor who works in Tamil cinema. He has acted in more than 800 Tamil films as a comedian and supporting actor. He was named after the English co ...

* M. S. Bhaskar as Thee Thangavel *

Madhan Bob S. Krishnamoorthy (born 19 October 1953) professionally known as Madhan Bob, is an Indian actor and comedian, appearing in many Tamil films in supporting roles. Madhan Babu is known for his amusing facial expressions, laughter and protruding ey ...

Jangiri Madhumitha Madhumitha is an Indian actress who appears in Tamil language films and reality show in vijay TV. She often portrays comedy roles and made her film debut through Rajesh's ''Oru Kal Oru Kannadi'' (2012). She also participated in TV shows like Lol ...

Swaminathan Lollu Sabha Swaminathan (born 31 January 1959) an Indian actor and comedian on working in the Tamil film and media industry. He appeared in prominent roles in Vijay TV's satiric series ''Lollu Sabha'' before becoming a full fledged actor in Tam ...

Rosin Jolly Rosin Jolly (born 1 October 1988) is a television presenter and an actress in Malayalam cinema. Early life Jolly is from Kerala. She was born in Muvattupuzha in the Ernakulam district of the Indian state of Kerala. She completed secondary and c ...

as Malinie

Production

Newcomer director Jayadev, the brother of actress

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, began scripting for the film in mid-2013 and met industry professionals in both Chennai and Kerala to develop his script. After spending over a year meeting potential actors and producers, Jayadev met

in Chennai during August 2014 to discuss the film and after hearing the concept and storyline, Kalaiyarasan showed interest to work in the project. Jayadev reworked the screenplay and pre-production began in May 2015, with the team fixing the filming dates for August 2015.

was signed on to play the lead female role. Speaking about her role, Anaswara revealed that she would portray a college student who hails from a middle-class background, who is extremely protective of Vetri (played by Kalaiyarasan)".

revealed that she would be portraying a Bollywood actress, while Kalaiyarasan would play her mother's carer. However the film later was delayed twice, firstly as a result of Kalaiyarasan signing on to appear in ''

Kabali ''Kabali'' is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by Pa. Ranjith and produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu. The film stars Rajinikanth in the titular role, with Radhika Apte, Sai Dhanshika, Winston Chao, Kishore, Dinesh, K ...

'' and then as a result of the

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. Principal photography began on 15 December 2015 and after a schedule break, the second schedule started in February and the production was wrapped up on 28 August 2016. The film was shot entirely in and around the city of Chennai. Editing and other post production works were later completed by July 2016, with sound mixing completed at Prasad Studios by audiographer Krishnamoorthy and grading was done at Prism and Pixels by Nandhakumar.

Music

The songs and BGM are composed by

and Lyrics by Murugan Manthiram & Velmurugan. *"Chennai Enga Ooru" – Ishaan Dev *"Anbe Endhan" – Adheef, Akhila Anand *"Adra Dolakku" –

Anthony Daasan Anthony Dasan is an Indian folk singer, who is currently working in the Tamil film industry. He is known for contributing a powerful voice to fusions of Tamil-folk, country, jazz, electronica and rock styles. Before this phase of playback singi ...

Jassie Gift Jassie Gift is an Indian film music composer and playback singer. He composes songs and sings for Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. He became famous after the success of his song "Lajjavathiye" from the film '' 4 The People''. He won ...

*"Neramthaan Vandhathe" –

Abhay Jodhpurkar Abhay Jodhpurkar is an Indian singer born in Madhya Pradesh. He debuted as a playback singer with the Kannada film Godfather (2012 film), God Father in 2012. He is best known for his song "Moongil Thottam", a duet with Harini (singer), Harini f ...

Critical reception

The film received negative reviews from critics. ''Cinema Express'' wrote "The film tries to be a lot of things at the same time. It starts off as a murder mystery and quickly slips into the family-drama genre, while trying hard to be a comedy intermittently. This lack of clarity in the writing and the sloppy execution makes Pattinapakkam a hard film to sit through." ''Times of India'' wrote "With hardly any convincing sequence, the whole set up looks staged and amateurish to the core. We do not sympathise with any of the characters which seem to suffer on screen and there is no curiosity factor throughout the movie."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 8208116 2010s mystery thriller films 2010s Tamil-language films 2018 directorial debut films 2018 films 2018 thriller drama films Hyperlink films Indian mystery thriller films Indian thriller drama films Tamil remakes of Malayalam films