Mayakkam Enna

Mayakkam Enna
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Directed by	Selvaraghavan
Story by	Selvaraghavan
Starring	Dhanush Richa Gangopadhyay
Cinematography	Ramji
Edited by	Kola Bhaskar
Music by	G. V. Prakash Kumar
Production company	Aum Productions
Distributed by	Gemini Film Circuit
Release date	25 November 2011 (2011-11-25)
Country	Template:Film India
Language	Tamil

Mayakkam Enna (Tamil: மயக்கம் என்ன; English: Why this dizziness?) is a Tamil romantic drama film directed by Selvaraghavan. It stars his brother Dhanush, along with newcomer Richa Gangopadhyay, and features music scored by G. V. Prakash Kumar while the cinematography was handled by Ramji. Mayakkam Enna depicts the story of a wildlife photographer and his struggles in life. The film, produced and distributed by Gemini Film Circuit, released on 25 November 2011 to generally positive reviews.

Story

Kartik Saminathan(Dhanush) lives along with his sister after their parents passed away. It is said that only their friends help them for their livelihood. Sundar, Shankar, Padmini and Vindhya were his friends. It is said that his nick name is genius as he used to do stupid things. Everyone used to stay in Sundar's home. Sundar's Father is said to be Role model for the father's of young generation. Kartik's aim is to become wildlife photographer and his inspiration in Madhesh Krishnasamy an expert in wildlife photography. When Kartik approaches Madhesh to accept him as his assistant, Madhesh sents him out by humiliating him. During a night Sundar introduces a girl yamini([Richa]) as the girl he loves to his gang of friends at a get together in beach. His friends scolds him for hiding his love to them. He asks kartik to speak to him at least scold him in anger. Kartik scolds him with a bad word and that makes yamini tensed. She asks sundar to leave his friends. Kartik scolds yamini in return. When she complains to sundar about this he scold her again. Yamini slaps kartik but kartik humilates her again by not bothering about her. Everyone starts to giggle and she was convinced by padmini. Kartik's voice over says at the back that something is odd with her. Kartik is humiliated again by Madhesh in his office when he approaches him to enroll him as his assistant. Later kartik, his gang of friends along with yamini meet at a restaurant where kartik and yamini quarrel again. But it is indirectly shown that yamini has some love feelings for kartik. Later yamini accepts to move out with sundar only if karthick accompanies them. In one such occasion Kartik gets a chance from madhesh to get bird's picture from forest. When kartik is packing his things sundar asks him whether he can come with him along with yamini as he is waiting for a chance to go out with yamini. In the trip kartik asks yamini about what's going on between them. When yamini tells him that she is not in love with sundar but she is just dating him, kartik gets a guilt conscious as he is cheating sundar. So he tells yamini that she is like his sister to him, yamini slaps him. They drink and fall asleep. In the forest kartik shoot a bird with exact angle and light. Yamini looks into those snaps from kartik's camera. When kartik gives his photos to madhesh, madhesh again humiliates him saying his photos were shit. Kartik becomes frustrated and starts drinking. In the meantime sundar calls him and asks him to pick up yamini as her car got break down. When kartik goes there yamini ask him about the photo's. Kartik explains what had happened over there. In order to console him she hugs him. But later the two becomes romantic and kisses each other. Suddenly sundar calls kartik to en quire him whether he had picked up yamini. Karthik being caught by guilt moves away without informing anyone. Later on hearing yamini's voicemail he checks the last edition of national geographic magazine and found his bird'd photo under madhesh's name. Being disappointed he meet madhesh to give the credit to him. But madhesh denies it. Kartik leaves there with tears. His friends started scolding him in his home for being vanished without saying anyone. Sundar tells him that he was waiting for him to give the ring to yamini. Yamini arrives there and asks him how are you? but kartik without replying enters into his room for going to restroom. Yamini follows him to his room and tells him she missed him so much and she felt like dying in his absence. They both hug each other. Suddenly sundar enters the room and gets shocked by seeing them hugging. He slaps kartik and leaves the place. Later with the help of sundar's father sundar forgive kartik and the duo decides that none of them is going to love yamini. In the meanwhile kartik sister calls sundar and expresses her love. As sundar receives the call in loud speaker mode kartik too hears what she said. On seeing this sundar's dad arranges marriage between kartik and yamini, sundar and kartik's sister. After their honeymoon, kartik faints and falls from the balcony on seeing that madhesh is being awarded as the best photographer of award for his bird's picture. It is shown after few years, kartik becomes mad and ferocious. He starts to drink a lot and beats up several people who asks him to take photograph. Yamini looks after him and the family and the problem created by him. She also sends his previous wildlife photographs to all the magazines and most of them got rejected. On a sudden night on seeing madhesh's interview about kartik's bird's photograph explaining as he took waiting in the forest, Kartik breaks the tv. Yamini comes in between to console him but he kicks her in the stomach that leads to abortion of their baby. Kartik being disappointed sleeps near the blood stains. Yamini returns from the hospital and starts cleaning it. Though she was angry she didn't express it towards him. Kartick realizes his mistake and apologizes to her. On the other hand kartik's photo is being selected by discovery channel from the magazine front page which was sent by yamini. Kartik tells her about his assignment from discovery channel. Yet she didnt talk to him. After few years kartik becomes one of the leading wild life photographers. He has been nominated for the IPC award in photography. Along with him madhesh is nominated for the Kartik's bird photo and finally it is announced that Kartik got that award. After receiving the award, kartik speaks saying that his friends where responsible for his success and walks out. Again he comes back to the podium and tells that the award goes to his wife as she is the reason for this award and applauds for her. Here yamini being overwhelmed with kartik, decides to talk to him. Kartik calls her and the movie ends when she says hello. In post credit it is shown that kartik follows madhesh. Madhesh tries to escape from kartick thinking he might humiliate him back. But kartik calls madhesh and tells him thank you!!

Cast

• Dhanush as Karthik Swaminathan (genius)
• Richa Gangopadhyay as Yamini
• Sunder Ramu as Sunder
• Mathivanan Rajendran as Shankar
• Pooja Balu as Padmini
• Soni Barring as Ramya
• Shilpi Kiran as Vindhya
• Rajiv Choudhry as Ramesh
• Ravi Prakash as Mathesh

Production

After his Irandam Ulagam starring Dhanush and Andrea Jeremiah ran into trouble after the latter had pulled out of the film, citing differences with the director, Selvaraghavan began a new film featuring Dhanush and Richa Gangopadhyay, who had initially been signed to do another film with the director. Richa began shooting for the film in Kannur in May 2011 and the film was wrapped up within three months. The title was finally changed to Mayakkam Enna in August 2011, with reports suggesting that Dhanush would sport four different looks in the film. Selvaraghavan has since made it clear that the film has a totally different script from the film that had been shelved. It is said that Dhanush will be seen in various stages, as a boy just out of his teenage to an old man. Yuvan Shankar Raja replaced Prakash Kumar as music composer in the film, with the latter reporting it was due to "money and time issues". However, in a sensational turn, Prakash Kumar was assigned again as composer after Yuvan Shankar Raja moved out of the project as he was busy with other commitments and could not give priority to Selvaraghavan, who was in rush to complete the film and move over to his next project, Vishwaroopam. Television actress Deepa Venkat dubbed the voice of the female lead.

Soundtrack

Untitled

The soundtrack, composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar, was released on 19 September 2011 at Radio Mirchi's Chennai station. The soundtrack has received generally positive reviews. Behindwoods commented it was "intoxicating enough", giving 3.5 out of 5.

Tracklist

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Naan Sonnadhum Mazhaivandhucha"	Selvaraghavan	Naresh Iyer, Saindhavi	05:29
2.	"Pirai Thedum"	Dhanush	G. V. Prakash Kumar, Saindhavi	05:32
3.	"Voda Voda Dhooram Korayala"	Selvaraghavan, Dhanush	Dhanush	04:36
4.	"Ennena Seidhom Ingu"	Selvaraghavan	Harish Raghavendra	04:26
5.	"Kadhal En Kadhal"	Dhanush & Selvaraghavan	Dhanush & Selvaraghavan	06:07
6.	"Mayakkam Enna Theme"	—	—	02:51

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Behindwoods
Rediff

Reception

The film received generally positive reviews. Sify claimed,"Simplistic story with a hard hitting impact, Mayakkam Enna will stay with you.Intelligent and mature." Behindwoods expressed,"To sum it all, Mayakkam Enna is emotionally rich and is an inebriating experience by itself."Inidaglitz mentioned,"Mayakkam Enna does mesmerize you and you will definitely consider watching this film more than once."