UDHAYAM
NH4
Udhayam NH4 is a romantic
thriller tamil movie directed by manimaran,a former associate of vetrimaran.Vetrimaran
has written the script and done the screenplay.The actor siddharth cast as prabhu
and newcomer ashrita sheddy cast as Rithika in Udhayam NH4 in the lead
roles.The film music and background score were composed by G.V.Prakash
kumar.The film was dubbed in telugu version as NH4.
While working with Balu Mahendra for
Adhu Oru kana kaalam(2004) ,vetrimaran prepared a script for Dhanush
as Desiya Nedunchalai 47 and Dhanush accepted the offer immediately but
vetrimaran found trouble finding producers and Dhanush opted to pursue other
films after the success of thiruvilaiyadal Arambam.Vetrimaran approached
producer kathiresan and narrated him but he didn’t like the script but later
agreed to work other project titled Pollathavan.
Vetrimaran restarted the film as a
creative producer with Dayanidhi Alagiri and chose Manimaran,debuntant director
to do his script.Siddharth approached
for the lead role and he accepted immediately to do the film.Vetrimaran retried
to get Desiya Nedunchalai but it was already registered by Dr.Srinivasan,hence
renamed it as Udhayam NH4.
Udhayam NH4 is a first of its kind
road film and presentation and racy screenplay keep this film interesting and
thrilling one to watch. The story revolving mostly around the highway
connecting Karnataka and tamilnadu via Andhra Pradesh.When Rithika,daughter of
a high profiled politician Avinash is kidnapped by her classmate prabhu(siddharath)
and is supposedly in love with her.The responsibility of bringing her back is
given to local encounter specialist manoj menon.It is revealed after initial
investigation that Rithika is also in love with prabhu and both might have
escaped together.
Avinash insists Manojmenon that Rithika
be brought back before midnight in her eighteenth birthday because stopping her decision on
marriage is legally impossible.Manoj tries to track down them with the help on
information that he gets from the prabhu’s friends and his roommates.The couple
attempts to leave Karnataka in order to reach tamilnadu,where prabhu’s uncle,a
lawyer,hopes to get them married.