Thoonga Nagaram

Thoonga Nagaram (Tamil: தூங்கா நகரம்; English: The city never sleeps) is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language thriller-drama film written and directed by debutant Gaurav, starring himself along with Vimal, Bharani, Nishanth and Anjali in the lead roles. The film, produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri's Cloud Nine Movies, was shot entirely in Madurai, the city where the story takes place and which the title refers to. It was released on 4 February 2011 to relatively positive reviews and excellent box office collection .

Plot

A group of four friends (Vimal, Barani, Nishanth and Gaurav Narayanan) live lives in their own way in Madurai. They are callous youth, who go hammer and tongs to make both ends meet. Vimal, a wedding videographer comes across his childhood friend Anjali, who is a compere in a local cable TV channel and love blossoms.

However, one event changes the course of their life. Vimal bashes a youth for taking obscene video clippings of a girl and blackmailing her with ulterior motive. The youth’s father (Kamala theatre owner Raju) finds out the men behind the attack on his son.

He hatches a conspiracy and ensures that the friends themselves turn foes for each other. In the meantime, it’s time for Vimal to tie the knot with Anjali. Did the baddie succeed in his mission is the crux of the story.

Cast

• Vimal as Kannan (Thvuttu Raja)
• Bharani as Ayyavu
• Gaurav as Rajamani
• Nishanth as Mariappan
• Anjali as Radha (Kalaivani) and also known as 'Theru Trisha'
• V. N. Chidambaram as Periya Thappa
• Arun Kumar as Periya Thappa Brother
• Subbu Panchu
• Pandu

Special appearances

• Vadivelu
• Madhumitha
• Singampuli
• Soori

Box office

The film was a commercial success grossing nearly $2million at the box office in 6 weeks,as per charts published by behindwoods.com.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack consists of seven tracks including one remix number from Penn tuned by Sundar C. Babu. It was released by Think Music and the audio launch took place on 5 January 2011 at Sathyam Cinemas. Directors Sasikumar, KV Anand, Samuthirakani, Gautham Menon, Lingusamy, Ameer, KS Ravikumar, producer Dhayanidhi Alagiri were the chief guests. The soundtrack received positive reviews.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"Vaigai Siricha Thoonganagaram"	S Gnanakaravel	Palghat Sriram	04:19
2.	"Koorana Paarvaigal"	Thamarai	Hariharan, Chinmayi	04:45
3.	"Kalyanam Kalyanam"	Narayana Kavi	Chandrababu, Karthik	04:18
4.	"Ettu Kangalukkum"	S Gnanakaravel	Madhu Balakrishnan	04:38
5.	"Nee Siricha Kondattam"	S Annamalai	Shankar Mahadevan	04:33
6.	"Rhythm of Thoonganagaram" (Theme Music 1)	Instrumental	Sundar C. Babu	00:55
7.	"Theme of Thoonganagaram" (Theme Music 2)	Instrumental	Sundar C. Babu	01:22

External links

• Thoonga Nagaram at IMDb