Oru Naal Koothu


Oru Naal Koothu is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nelson Venkatesan and produced by J. Selva Kumar, featuring Dinesh, Miya, Nivetha Pethuraj, Abhinav, and Riythvika in lead roles. Lingesh, Karunakaran, Ramesh Thilak, Bala Saravanan, and Nagineedu play supporting roles.
The title references the fuss over the wedding day of an Indian marriage. The story is based on the experiences of Nelson Venkatesan himself.
The music was composed by Justin Prabhakaran with cinematography by Gokul Benoy and editing by V J Sabu Joseph. The film released on 10 June 2016 to positive reviews from critics.

Plot

Three women face challenges in their process of getting married, which are very relatable to Indian society.
Rajkumar, who is in love with his colleague Kavya, is reluctant to marry her, owing to her superior economic background, so much so that he delays talks of marriage. This causes a strain in their relationship, and they ultimately they break up with Kavya agreeing to marry a guy of her father's choice.
Lakshmi is visited by several suitors, and every one of them is rejected by her father, whose greediness makes him wait every time for a suitor who is per the family's status. One guy, Mukundan, likes her, but his family rejects her due to her family's low status. In spite of that, Mukundan convinces Lakshmi to come to his place to get married. She does so, but in the bus stand, Mukundan's family spots both of them and drags Mukundan back home, not before insulting Lakshmi. With a heavy heart, she boards a bus to return to her place.
Susheela's family has been trying to get her married for the past few years, but none of them seems interested in her citing looks, job, and so on. This makes her quite an introvert, and the only person who understands her is her colleague Sathish. Bhaskar agrees to marry Susheela but gets cold feet and ends up canceling the marriage, insulting Susheela every time she demands an explanation. Finally, Susheela's brother Raghavendran convinces Bhaskar to agree to marry Susheela, but she rejected the marriage because she is now in love with Sathish.
Kavya's wedding is fixed with the guy, but on the day before her marriage, Raj, who travels along with Shoulder in a car to the venue, avoids crashing into Lakshmi and diverts the car because of which another relative of Kavya's fiancee to ram on the road and die instantly. Due to this, Kavya is labeled as bad luck, and her marriage is called off. Raj arrives on time at the venue, but before that, her parents ask to call raj but she refuses saying that she wished to marry raj with the intention of love ad she doesn't want to marry him as an option. so Kavya chooses Sathish as her partner and marries to him. In the end, we see Raj getting engaged to Lakshmi after a year.

Cast

The production house agreed to finance the film, after gaining profits while working on Dinesh's previous film, Thirudan Police. The film began production in March 2015 in Dindigul, where scenes involving Mia George were shot. Nivetha Pethuraj, a former beauty contestant winner from UAE, was selected to portray another leading female role in the film.

Soundtrack

The music and soundtracks were composed by Pannaiyarum Padminiyum fame Justin Prabhakaran. The soundtrack features five songs, the lyrics for which are written by Madhan Karky, Vivek, Veera, Sankar Dass and Gopalakrishna Bharathi. Behindwoods rated the album 3 out of 5 and called it "Justin delivers a soothing album."