Naan Sigappu Manithan

Plot synopsis:
In the middle of the night, Indhiran (Vishal), accompanied by his two friends, Sathish (Jagan) and Karuna (Sunder Ramu), purchases a gun illegally from a local gangster. Back home, Indhiran stares at his wishlist and recalls his past.
Since childhood, Indhiran has been suffering from narcolepsy, a rare disorder, which makes him fall asleep whenever his emotions reach an extreme and hinders him from living an ordinary life. He needs to be accompanied all the time, companies hesitate to hire him, although he has excelled in academics, and he cannot impregnate women since he would fall asleep during sex. However, he can still hear whatever is being said when he is sleeping.
Indhiran creates a list with 10 goals he wants to achieve on his own. One day, he ventures out alone, which was one of his goals. When he is almost hit by a vehicle while crossing the road, his fear mounts and he falls asleep in the middle of the road. A passerby (Mayilsamy) makes him pose as an orphaned corpse and gathers money from onlookers for his burial. Meera (Lakshmi Menon), who passes by, takes pity and shells out almost five grands.
She later meets Indhiran in a mall and falls unconscious, seeing him alive. After clearing up the misunderstanding, they start dating and fall for each other. Meera makes one of the dreams of Indhiran come true (i.e.) getting a kiss from a beautiful woman by kissing him. But Meera's father opposes their marriage as Indhiran cannot give birth to a child. Meera urges Indhiran to find a way how he could stay awake. It dawns on Indhiran that he had never fallen asleep while taking a shower. Believing that her father will accept Indhiran only when his potency is proved, Meera and Indhiran have sex underwater in their pool, resulting in Meera becoming pregnant.
On a late night drive, Meera and Indhiran find themselves in an under-construction bridge. Their car is hit by another car and the shock makes Indhiran doze. Meera is brutally attacked by four thugs. Indhiran can hear the entire incident but remains asleep. Meera falls into a coma and her baby has been aborted. A heartbroken Indhiran vows to exact revenge on the perpetrators.
The narrative moves back to the present. Deciding to venge all by himself, Indhiran fails to testify to the police. To safeguard himself from any sudden shock, he buys a portable audio player and uses it with full volume. Enquiring Meera's friends, Indhiran first suspects Karthik (Rishi), a rich but ill-mannered guy, whose marriage proposal was rejected by Meera. Indhiran confronts him, but he feigns ignorance about the incident.
Indhiran remembers that there were four persons, with one of them named Sekhar, and Sekhar's ringtone, while the police finds out that the offenders rode a red car. Indhiran stumbles upon a red car in a petrol bunk and enquires the driver who claims that the car was with a mechanic named Sekhar on the day the crime took place. At the workshop, he spots the mechanic who tries to abscond, recognising Indhiran, and a chase ensues leading them to a building under construction. Informed by Sathish, Karuna arrives there and kills Sekhar. He then slits himself and is admitted for treatment. Karuna then recollects.
Married to Karuna for two years, Kavitha (Iniya) was dissatisfied with her drunkard husband; she begins an affair with Aravind, a rich friend of Karuna. He spends a lot of money on buying her expensive gifts. Indhiran gains knowledge of this and advises Kavitha against it. It turns out that Karuna, to realise his ambitions of running a business in US, had been using his wife to manipulate Aravind. Citing Indhiran's confrontation, Kavitha bluffed to Aravind that if Karuna gets to know about the affair, he would kill them both. She suggested that the only way to solve it once and for all is to arrange the amount of ₹ 20 million Karuna needs to settle in the states. With him gone, they could enjoy being together. Aravind agreed to finance Karuna out of his lust for her.
Later, when Karuna and Kavitha are celebrating their success, Indhiran drops by unexpectedly. They mess up; Indhiran suspects them and informs Aravind who confronts the couple. When Aravind realizes that he had been cheated, he hits Kavitha in a fit of rage and she dies. Infuriated, Karuna retaliated and kills Aravind. Karuna arranges for disposing them with the help of the thugs and lies to Indhiran that Kavitha has eloped with Aravind. Since he assumed that Indhiran was responsible for the death of Kavitha, Karuna had planned to take revenge by making him suffer the same way and requested the thugs to hides the bodies of Kavitha and Aravind and rape Meera.
The remaining thugs insist Karuna to bring Indhiran to the same place where Sekhar was killed. Finding out that it was Karuna who had killed Sekhar, they beat him up. The thugs then remove the audio player from Indhiran who gets an adrenaline rush and dozes off. While the thugs are assaulting him, one of them breaks a water pump which splashes water all over and awakens Indhiran. He kills them all and finally Karuna too. Indhiran tells Kaurna just before he dies by Indhiran, that he had seen Karuna killing Sekhar but had come with him only to locate the other thugs.
With all his wishes fulfilled, he has a new wish that he would make Meera recover soon. The final scene shows Indhiran hugging Meera, who is tearful hearing him which shows that she is definitely recovering.

Tags: violence, murder, romantic, flashback

Review:
His Sleep keeps us wide awake....
In the footprints of Ghajini, Chandramukhi, Anniyan we have in our hands another well made disorder-based-thriller.
Though the grandiose, as in the case of the former movies, is missing the plot has been kept simple and to the point and hence strikes a chord among the viewers.Vishal's "Nan Sigappu Manithan" is the third venture from Vishal Film Factory and also the third film in Vishal-Thiru combination.
Indiran (Vishal) suffers from Narcolepsy, a disorder that puts people to sleep at the slightest excitement of emotions.
When his love life with Meera (Lakshmi Menon) is affected by this disorder he finds a temporary solution after which a tragedy strikes which forever alters his life.Vishal with the tinted, and often cracked, glass is well suited for the role of a narcoleptic patient.
Be it his innocence during the job-hunt or the shyness during his love-life or the anger during the revenge episode, he has very well distinguished his expressions and has lit up the screen.
Though his disorder initially tickles the viewers, "the scene" totally shakes everyone to the core.Lakshmi Menon as Vishal's Juliet has done her part with no blemishes.
If Vishal sleeps in the first half, she takes over the job during the second.
Besides the lead, the art director deserves appreciation for his well made backdrops during the desert number and also for looking into the tiniest details (the mirror in the Vishal's home with a lot of stains is an example).Nevertheless, Thiru's script is the first and foremost hero for spinning a web around a disorder and making it into a full length entertainer.The only flaw that I found out: Indiran's mother initially thinks that her son falls unconscious.
Later Indiran uses water as a recovery strategy.
In any normal situations the first thing we do is to use water to wake up an unconscious person.
But it took Indiran over two decades to discover that water-idea.
Does it add up??Still, "Naan Sigappu Manithan": Green Flag..
A Revenge thriller that will keep you engaged.
Vishal's Naan Sigapu Manithan is a Revenge thriller film with a medical disorder tale in the plot.
It can be compared to Gajini though this will not make a huge impact like Gajini because of some commercial elements here and there in the plot.
Vishal has justified the role of a Narcolepsy patient and portrays the problem they face with the social world.
Saranya Ponvannan as usual plays the caring mother character yet it's not boring what she does, make us laugh.
Lakshmi Menon for a change as the modern rich man's city girl impresses us with her new looks and acting (credits to the makeup man for using enough touch up coats and colour contacts).
She had a good scope in the first half of the movie and in the second half she goes as the sleeping beauty.
Iniya the vaagai soodava girl has played the similar role of Thirutu payale Malavika which perfectly fits with her new transformed stunning looks.
Her role is short but important and impressive.
Supporting roles by Jagan and Mayakam Enna fame Sudar Ramu gives a good hand to the plot.
Jayaprakash comes in a short role.
The screenplay was good and quite engaging except for the fact of misplacement of songs.
Story is also fresh keeping in mind that without digging much into the real medical syndrome if see this as something newly presented it feels fresh.
BGM so much was mostly stolen from myakam enna and Gajini.
Music was average not impressive by GV.
The controversial lip-lock was not so laudable but of course the plot had adultery in so many sections justifying U/A certification.
Second half twist might offend so many people particularly female viewers.
Overall 3/5.
-Reviewed by Sivakumar Balachandran.
Watch it for Narcolepsy!.
Story - A man suffering from Narcolepsy disorder, have to strike back for his love.Positives: New term Narcolepsy in the story, Vishal & Lakshmi Menon, extraordinary first half, Good cinematography, Excellent BGM by GV.Prakash.Negatives: Last 30mins.Vishal-Director Thiru combination for 3rd time.
Most of us now only came to know what is Narcolepsy.
The way director explained about a guy suffering from Narcolepsy from childhood is brilliant.
Vishal shared a romantic screen with Lakshmi Menon for the second time.
Naan Sigappu Manithan is completely good until the story unlocks something in the screen.
Iniya appearance is not fair.
Some flashback for revenge is not so strong.
Remember still NSM have more +ve than -ve.Bottom-line - Average commercial with some new dose..
Thiru and Vishal once again won the hearts of people.
I saw the film a couple of days ago .
It was awesome.
The film is about a man (Vishal as Indiran) who suffers from Narcolepsy and faces his problems.
Vishal's acting is very good.
Lakshmi Menon comes in the first half ans a few minutes in second half but second half runs based on her .
Jagan and Sundar Ramu as Vishal's friends does a good job .
Jayaprakash in a small role foes a good job.
first half is full romance and comedy but post interval and after interval takes a turn and the film turns into a thriller.
The twist in the second half is unexpected .
No one would have expected it.
The most important thing is Thiru's screenplay and direction.
Don't miss this film.It is definitely worth a watch..
Naan Sigappu Manithan (Tamil) (U/A) --------- my Rating : ★★★½ NARCOLEPSY THRILLER.
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a must watch who loves twists and turns ....This film talks about a neurological sleeping disorder called narcolepsy.
Co-produced by Vishal, the film stars himself in the leading role with Lakshmi Menon and Iniya in supporting roles..
brilliantly plotted.....
Naan Sigappu Manithan by THRIU is an excellent story,casting vishal, lakshmi menon.
The plot revolves around indiran (vishal) who has sleeping disorder..
he has his own wishes to complete..
while on the process of completing his wishes he meets with meera (lakshmi).
she helps him with his wishes and eventually falls in love with him..
her father is not happy with indiran and avoids the proposal..
one night meera gets raped by four people and goes into coma...
meanwhile indiran is urging to seek his revenge..
what he undergoes is a totally unexpected criteria...I enjoyed watching it...
it didn't make me sleep..!!
watch it..
love it.
Naan Sigappu Manithan (2014).
The movie was worst.
The movie was not at all good.
The movie was not at all good.
The movie has a worst story and many vulgar scenes.
Songs and BGM in the movie was also worst.
Boring movie..
Red is for anger!!.
I watched this movie with the least expectations and frankly speaking I was quiet intrigued by this rare disorder which Indran had, narcolepsy.
Indran played by Vishal convinces us and he keeps us engaged by creating funny moments and at the same time he makes us understand his pain.
As the plot unfolds I thought that the movie was only about narcolepsy and how Indran with the help of his mother, friends and love overcomes his troubles.
But no that is not the complete plot as I was shocked near the interval segment after all I did not expect the plot would take such a shocking and brutal turn.
This movie aptly named "Naan Sigappu Manithan" brings out his anger and his guilt and how he confronts the people responsible for it, and the sub plot which was shocking to the core as unexpected things pile up in front of you which eventually leads to the finale.
This movie is a must watch by everyone for both narcolepsy and the movie's take on violence against women.