Naan

<p>Karthik is a brilliant student but already shows signs of criminal behaviour in childhood, like his friend’s parent’s signature on a report card. Sent home from school early for this misdeed, Karthik is shocked to discover his mother with a neighbour. His mother begs him not to disclose her affair to his father, but he does so, and his father commits . Karthik’s mother continues her illicit relationship. One day, Karthik kills his mother and her lover by setting the house on fire. He is sent to a where he grows up. On his release, the warden gives him the address of his uncle and asks him to concentrate on his studies. Karthik’s aunt is not willing to take him in, so he goes to to start a new life. As fate would have it, the bus meets with an accident, and his fellow passenger, Mohammed Salim, is killed. Karthik steals Salim’s documents, adopts his identity, and enrolls in a government medical college in . He befriends a rich classmate named Ashok, his girlfriend Rupa, and their friend Suresh. Ashok allows Salim to stay in his house rent-free. Later, Salim and Ashok encounter the warden from the former’s juvenile home, who recognises Karthik. However, since Karthik is now impersonating Salim, he picks up an argument with the warden and swears that he is not the person he thinks he is. Nevertheless, Ashok becomes suspicious of his new friend. One day Ashok and Suresh go to a without Rupa. Suresh suggests that they take some girls along. Salim lets Rupa know of this plan due to her sincere and true love for Ashok. Rupa starts to suspect that Ashok is cheating on her, while Ashok worries that Salim betrayed him to Rupa. Ashok slaps Salim angrily and tells him to move out. Katrhik apologises to him and agrees to look for another lodging. While Karthik is showering, Ashok opens his briefcase. He finds a photo of Karthik’s biological father and realises that it was a different man that Karthik had introduced as his actual father earlier. Suddenly, Karthik enters the room and asks Ashok to give the photo back. Ashok refuses, removes Karthik’s towel, and confirms that he is not a , as he is not . Salim gets angry and shoves Ashok; Ashok hits his head on a table and dies. At first, Karthik is horrified by what he has done, but he then covers up the murder by burying Ashok’s body in a on the outskirts so intelligently that no one ever finds out that Ashok is dead. When a family friend of Ashok, who has not seen Ashok since he was a child, plans to meet him, Karthik successfully impersonates Ashok, fooling even Ashok’s parents and Rupa. Suresh, however, discovers Karthik’s deception, so Karthik kills him and buries him in the same graveyard. The following day, the police come to Ashok’s house and reveal that they have found Suresh’s corpse. They interrogate several people in the city, including Karthik, but he fools them into concluding that Ashok killed Suresh and fled; meanwhile, they consider Karthik (now back to impersonating Salim) an innocent and a hard-working student. Karthik continues to live as Salim after convincing Salim’s father into giving him his son’s identity. The film ends with the cliff hanger “To Be Continued”. The film was initially launched in 2008, with and playing the lead roles, however, due to the failure of his previous film , the producer called off the project. The film restarted with Vijay Antony’s intervention in October 2011 who also took the lead role from Siddharth. The soundtrack has six tracks, all composed by himself. Following , who created tracks in and , Vijay Antony too released a single track “Makkayala Makkayala” in June 2012. Malathi Rangarajan of praised as “Well done!” and said: “A plethora of pluses make watch-worthy. Vijay Antony’s acumen comes to the fore in his choice of a subject that’s strong and a character that’s stronger”. N. Venkateswaran of gave 3.5 out of 5 stars, writing that “but for some minor blips, the writing (and therefore the movie too) is pretty gripping throughout, and keeps the audience on the edge of the seats”, calling it “[T]he perfect thriller to spice up the weekend”. wrotet that “‘Naan’ is racy and appealing” and also adding that “it is a racy crime thriller that is quite an appealing effort from Jeeva Shankar and Vijay Antony.” The Behindwoods Review Board gave the film 2.5 out of 5, calling it a “suspense thriller that works for most parts.” stated that “Vijay Antony changes beat”. rated it average, calling it a “decent psychological thriller.” Upon release, it was noted that the film had been inspired by the 1999 American film . It was remade in Bengali as which released in April 2015. The Kannada Remake, was released in 2016. A sequel to the movie was released in August 2014 called . In March 2014, it was reported that the film would be remade in with in the lead role. Despite a production delay, confirmed during an interview that the film would be made in February 2017.</p>