24 (2016 film)

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24
24 (2016 film) poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVikram Kumar
Written byVikram Kumar
Produced bySuriya
Starring
CinematographyTirru
Edited byPrawin Pudi
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byEros International[1]
Studio Green
Release date
  • 6 May 2016 (2016-05-06)
Running time
164 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil
Budget₹70 crore[2]
Box officeest. ₹100 crore[2]

24 is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film[3] written and directed by Vikram Kumar. Based on the concept of time travel, the film stars actor Suriya in a triple role alongside Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nithya Menen.

The film's development dates back to 2009, at which time it was to feature actors Vikram and Ileana D'Cruz in lead roles. However, in February 2010, the project was dropped due to the difference in opinions between the director, producer, and actor, facing rejection of the refined script. In August 2014, Suriya agreed to produce and act in the film, with principal photography commencing in Mumbai in April 2015, continuing in Nasik, Goregaon and Pune. The second phase of filming was done in Poland by the end of September 2015. Filming was completed in Chennai by November 2015.

Produced by 2D Entertainment, the film has cinematography by S. Tirru. The soundtrack and film score were composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics by Vairamuthu and Madhan Karky. The film (along with a dubbed Telugu version with the same title) was released on 6 May 2016.[4]

The film was a critical and commercial success,[5][6] and won two awards at the 64th National Film Awards – Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. Suriya won the Critics Best Actor Award at the 64th Filmfare Awards.[7]

Plot[]

Dr. Sethuraman is a reputed scientist and watchmaker who lives with his wife Priya and newborn son Manikandan in a mansion with a laboratory at Megamalai. In January 1990, on his birthday, he invented a watch with which a person can travel back and forth in time for a maximum of 24 hours. His evil twin brother, Athreya tries to take the watch and kills Priya in the process. Sethuraman escapes with his son and boards a train. Athreya boards the train and distraught on finding the watch and his nephew missing, kills Sethuraman and gets seriously injured while escaping the train.

26 years later, Manikandan aka Mani becomes a watchmaker who considers Sathyabama his biological mother. A paralyzed Athreya wakes up from his coma and decides to find the watch with his trusted aide Mithran, now a rich man; he hopes to go back to 1990 and save himself from the accident. In a series of incidents, Mani finds Sethuraman's watch and explores its powers. Using them, he manages to impress Sathya, his client who hails from Sathyabama's native place, Gopalasamudram. Under Athreya's instructions, Mithran issues an advertisement offering five crore rupees (50 million rupees) to the one who finds Sethuraman's watch. This is spotted by Saravanan, Mani's close friend whom Mani helps to create a duplicate watch. Including Mani, many prepare duplicates of the watch and submit them, but Athreya spots Mani's accurate design, and attacks Saravanan. Mani arrives at the scene and fends off the attackers to save him, but Athreya shoots him, severs his arm, and kills him, thereby gaining possession of the watch.

Athreya uses the watch with Mithran and is shocked to learn that the watch can only let him travel back and forth for 24 hours of the current day and decides to revive Mani, and in order to do so, he instructs Mithran to have the advertisement removed from the newspapers. Mithran then goes to Mani's house and places the watch on his right hand and leaves. Mani wakes up the next morning and is shocked to see the watch on his left hand. He travels back to the instance of the watch being misplaced the previous night and secretly follows Mithran. Athreya predicts this and manages to fool Mani by pretending that he is Sethuraman, who survived Athreya's attack as a paraplegic. This shocks Mani, as he enters the room and notices a picture of him as a child with his biological parents. Mani then learns from Sathyabama of the happenings; she had been studying abroad and was returning to her hometown Gopalasamudram for her nuptials on the same train where Sethuraman was trying to escape with Mani; before Athreya had arrived, a badly bruised Sethuraman handed Mani to Sathyabama and pleaded with her to save his son. Sethuraman then faced Athreya in another compartment, leaving his whereabouts unknown. Upon returning home, Sathyabama's family was shocked to see her with a child and was badmouthed by her society and her marriage called off. Sathyabama's father was against her decision to save Mani, and she left with him for Chennai to honour the promise given to Sethuraman, sacrificing her whole family to nurture Mani as her own son. Mani tells her that he will unite Sathyabama with her estranged family.

Mani leaves with Sathyabama for Gopalasamudram and unites her with her estranged family. He also learns that Sathya is Sathyabama's niece, and the duo fall in love. Athreya arrives with Mithran and convinces everyone, including Mani, that he is Sethuraman and that Athreya is dead. Sathya learns about Athreya's identity when he accidentally signs a cheque using his real name and hands it over to her, and tries to reveal it to Mani, but Athreya creates a distraction by falling off from a staircase, injuring himself. Mani uses the watch to travel back in time, with Athreya touching the watch discreetly so that he remembered the event. Athreya finds himself with Sathya, this time signing the cheque using his fake name to conceal his identity.

Later, Mani learns from Mithran that his father is going to die soon and wishes to see Priya for one last time by traveling back in time to 1990. Mani modifies the watch and tests it, which reveals the truth about Athreya's identity (Mani earlier suspected Athreya when he found an extra digit on his biological father's left hand in the picture, which Athreya didn't have). He tricks Athreya into revealing the date and time of Priya's death and gives him a fake watch. Mani uses the original watch to travel back in time to 1990, and Athreya tries to stop him by letting himself thrown towards Mani by Mithran, and touches the watch in the process.

In January 1990, Athreya discovers himself young and healthy again and realizes that Mithran is unaware of the events that had occurred (due to Mithran not being in proximity with the watch or its users) and instructs a different tactic to him and his men to attack Sethuraman. In the mansion, Sethuraman and Priya spot the modified watch on their baby's hand. Sethuraman gets overjoyed when he finds out that his son travelled back in time to them as their baby, making him the world's first time traveller, since he had modified the watch not present in his initial design. But then he senses danger; he feels that Mani returned to a toddler's age as they may not be alive when he was able to speak. Sethuraman takes Priya and Mani and hides them in a secret closet. Athreya arrives and attacks Sethuraman to find the watch. Sethuraman and Priya escape with Mani, and Mithran gets killed when he tries to save Athreya from a deadly fall, distraughting him. Priya and Mani hide in a room as Sethuraman faces Athreya in the garden. The moment Athreya fires a bullet at him, Sethuraman freezes time and lays Athreya before the bullet in his place, thus killing him for good.

Sethuraman then flees with Priya and Mani and boards the train, but not before throwing away the watch upon Priya's urging. They then meet Sathyabama, to whom Mani immediately bonds with, and upon her request, Sethuraman agrees to teach science to children in a school constructed by her father in Gopalasamudram. The film ends with a young Mani and his family staying with Sathyabama's family and flirting with a young Sathya.

Cast[]

  • Suriya in a triple role as
    • Dr. Sethuraman, Athreya's younger twin brother and a scientist who invented a time-travelling 24 watch and Mani's biological father
    • Athreya, Sethuraman's older twin brother who wants to get hold of watch and Mani's biological paternal uncle
    • Manikandan "Mani" aka Subramani, Sethuraman's son and Athreya's nephew
  • Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Sathyabhama aka Sathya, Mani's love interest (voice dubbed by Chinmayi in both Tamil and Telugu)
  • Nithya Menen as Priya Sethuraman, Sethuraman's wife, and Mani's biological mother
  • Saranya Ponvannan as Sathyabhama, Mani's adoptive mother
  • Ajay as Mithran, Athreya's trusted sidekick
  • Girish Karnad as Sathya's grandfather
  • Mohan Raman as Sathya's father
  • Sudha as Sathya's mother
  • Sathyan as Saravanan, Mani's friend
  • Charle as Reddiyar
  • Appukutty as Reddiyar's staff
  • Harsha Vardhan as Kalai, an electrician who works for Athreya
  • Natarajan Balkrishna as Sathya's uncle
  • T. S. Ranganathan as Sathya's uncle

Production[]

Pre Production[]

In August 2009, director Vikram Kumar announced that he was set to direct a film titled 24. The film was backed by producer Mohan Natarajan, which would feature actor Vikram in a lead role. Harris Jayaraj was confirmed to score the music and P. C. Sreeram to handle the film cinematography.[8] By late 2009, the filming commenced at AVM Studios, Chennai.[9] Sets that resembled dense forests and caves were replicated.[9] In an interview with The Times of India in Chennai, director Vikram stated: "We have signed Ileana D'Cruz to do 24. It will be her re-launch in Tamil cinema. She has given us bulk dates from February 2010 for the second schedule of the film."[10][11] In February 2010, Vikram Kumar officially announced that he had dropped the film. Vikram clarified that he fine-tuned the film script but it was rejected by actor Vikram and the film producer.[12] Further, the other reason cited was that the director had failed to provide the complete script even while production expenses were increasing.[13] Due to difference of opinions, the director voluntarily walked out and stated that he had been making changes in the script and would approach a leading actor in future.

Development[]

"Many writers and directors have attempted a movie dealing with time travel. But this movie is about my perspective of this genre, and unlike what usually happens in such movies, I have kept the narrative very simple, so that anyone from the ages of six, right up to sixty can enjoy the movie, in which a gadget actually plays an important role."

 —Vikram on his film, in an interview with The Times of India.[14]

In August 2014, Suriya's production company 2D Entertainment announced the project through their official Twitter handle. In October 2014, A. R. Rahman was announced as the film soundtrack and score composer. Actor Suriya was confirmed as the male lead.[15] The main plot of the revived project was the same as the one narrated to actor Vikram, but over the years, Vikram Kumar changed the screenplay with new dimensions in narration.[16] In an interview Suriya pointed the core of the plot stating: "The one thing that humans cannot control is "time" but what if one has the power to do so. This is the core theme of the film 24."[17]

Characters[]

Actor Suriya played triple[13] roles in the film, with five appearances.[14] One of the roles being that of an antagonist, five to six looks were designed for him.[18] The antagonist character "Athreya" is a wicked, yet smart guy who goes to any extent to fulfill his desires.[14] The producers had potential discussions with Catherine Tresa[19] for the lead female role before Samantha Ruth Prabhu was finalised in February 2015.[20] In July 2015, Nithya Menen was roped to play the other leading character.[21] Characters played by Samantha and Nithya in the film are of contrasting nature though both play love interest opposite Suriya.[14] Samantha plays the love interest opposite to the character "Mani" whereas Nithya Menen to the character "Sethuraman".[22] Saranya Ponvannan plays the role of a mother of the character "Mani".[23]

Filming[]

Principal photography commenced in Mumbai on 8 April 2015.[24] A romantic song was filmed in Nashik by early June 2015.[25] Certain scenes were filmed at Filmistaan studios in Goregaon.[13] VFX works were also carried out in the same studio by September 2015.[13] Nithya Menen began filming her portions in the city from 1 August 2015.[21] The first schedule was completed by early September 2015.[26] By mid of the same month, a twenty-day schedule began in Poland.[26] The crew filmed action scenes and songs at Kraków, the Zborow Mountain, Zakopane, Leba, Lewin Klodzki, Jedlina Zdroj, Wałbrzych, Bulowice and Nowe Brzesko–all in Poland.[27] The lights were provided by Kraków Company Cinelight. The Kraków Film Commission and Kraków Film Cluster supported the project in Poland.[27] This second schedule of filming was wrapped up on 30 September 2015.[28] On 26 October 2015, the team shot an important sequences in Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium in Pune. The shoot was completed in a single day.[29] By the end of the same month, the last schedule of filming was done at Adithyaram Studios in Chennai.[30] On 2 November 2015, the filming was completed.[30]

In all, the film was shot for over 100 days, out of which 30 days of work was done abroad.[14] More than 60 percent of the film involves VFX.[14]

Music[]

Main article: 24 (soundtrack)

The film score and soundtrack album are composed by A. R. Rahman. The lyrics to the songs are written by Vairamuthu and Madhan Karky. The soundtrack album was released by Eros Music on 9 April 2016.[31]

Release[]

The film was released on an estimated 1,950–2,000 screens worldwide.[32] The screen count in United States was 267, with special premieres held on 5 May 2016.[33] The states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana shared 425 plus screens between them.[32]

Marketing[]

A game titled 24: Athreya Run which was created by Creative Monkey Games was released through application distribution platforms iTunes Store and Playstore on 1 May 2016.[34]

Critical response[]

India

In his review for The Hindu, critic Baradwaj Rangan called 24 an "intelligent, joyous mix of sci-fi and masala-myth."[35] Sreedhar Pillai in his review for Firstpost mentioned, "24 is a classy commercial entertainer, which has its moments."[36] Malini Mannath of The New Indian Express wrote, "Attractively packaged, 24 is refreshing, novel and worth a watch."[37] M. Suganth of The Times of India, assigned 4 out of 5 stars, stating: "It is not often that we see a big star choosing to take a risk with a script that is not simplistic or formulaic, especially when his last few films have underperformed at the box office, but here Suriya pulls it off admirably."[38] IndiaGlitz.com rated the film 3.3 out of 5 and called it as "A beautiful and brilliant show of Time"[39] For The Indian Express, Goutham VS wrote: "Suriya’s ‘Athreya’ is a role to remember for years to come. Director Vikram Kumar needs to be applauded for handling such a complex multi-layered screenplay."[40] He gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5.[40] Critic based at India Today, Kirubhakar Purushothaman praised the director, calling him the hero of the film. He extended his review by assigning 3.5 stars (out of 5).[41] In her review for Daily News and Analysis, Latha Srinivasan stated, "Actor Suriya gives a stellar performance in this tale of time travel! Vikram Kumar's '24' is a visually stunning film with a novel concept."[42] She gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5.[42] A 3.5 star (out of 5) generalized review by Indo-Asian News Service mentioned that the "Suriya starrer is truly ambitious".[43] Critical review board based at Behindwoods said: "24 is all about Suriya. Every emotion is portrayed in his point of view; from love to comedy to pain to revenge, it all comes under his coverage as he plays three important roles in the film."[44] They assigned the film 3.25 stars out of 5.[44] In her review published by The Deccan Chronicle, Anupama Subramaniam called the film a "well executed and intelligently woven sci-fi thriller."[45] She gave the film 3 stars out of 5.[45] Subha Shetty Saha, in her review for Mid-Day stated, "24 is a fantastic attempt at sci-fi genre of filmmaking and also belies a lot of hard work and thought that have gone into this at the screenplay stage."[46] She gave the film 3 stars out of 5.[46] S Saraswathi of Rediff felt, "24 is a cleverly crafted entertainer that is worth your time and money."[47] Gautaman Bhaskaran of the Hindustan Times gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5, claiming: "The Sathya-Mani romance is silly to the core, and drags the narrative down by several notches, though uniformly fine performances by Menen, Samantha and Suriya come as magic relief."[48]Sify rated 3 out of 5 stars stating "Straight off the bat Vikram Kumar's Suriya sci-fi film 24 is a well executed thinking movie within the commercial format."[49]

Overseas

J Hurtado of Twitch commented on the film, "24 is about as high concept as masala entertainers come, it never forgets its purpose is to thrill its audience and give them what they paid for. It is a breathless, inventive, romantic, action packed adventure that is packed to the gills with surprises and joy."[50] Mythily Ramachandran, in her review for Gulf News concluded that the film was an entertaining ride and went on to say, "The time-travelling film wins with superb and often hilarious performances by its leading actors."[51]

Box office[]

24 grossed an estimated ₹55.6 crore (US$7.4 million) on its worldwide opening weekend, the second highest three-day weekend for a South Indian film after Baahubali: The Beginning.[52]

India

By the end of its first weekend, the film had earned around ₹50 crore (US$6.6 million) in India,[53] with a considerable part of the revenues coming from the Telugu version.[52] At ₹17 crore (US$2.3 million), the collections from Telangana and AP were equal to that from Tamil Nadu during the opening weekend.[54] The film collected approximately ₹40 crore (US$5.3 million) from Tamil Nadu in its entire run.[2]

Overseas

The film grossed over $1 million in three days on 161 screens in the United States. In the U. A. E. and Australia, the film earned $200,000 and AUD187,000 respectively during the same period.[53][55]

The film grossed ₹100 crore worldwide in 18 days of theatrical run.[2]

Sequel[]

The film's trailer, teaser and the first look posters featured Suriya as a paraglider. However, the paragliding sequences were removed by the film editor due to time constraints.[56] In an interview, the editor stated that paragliding is Mani's (character played by Suriya) hobby and was supposed to be featured as an introductory scene for Mani.[56] Later, he stated that the deleted scene would be featured in the second part of the film; planned as 24 Decoded.[56]

Legal issues[]

The title 24 was in a legal tussle when actor Anil Kapoor planned an action against the production house 2D Entertainment as the official look and logo of the film title seemed similar to the American TV series 24, for which Kapoor had bought the remake rights from 20th Century Fox International TV.[57] Kapoor held the rights of the 192 episodes for a period of four years extendable to another ten years. His lawyers defended the case, stating that Kapoor holds one of the highest licensee deals for a fiction format.[57] A legal action was planned against Suriya and his production house 2D Entertainment but was settled in April 2015.[58]

Accolades[]

The film received two Awards at the 2017 Vikatan Awards – Best Visual Effects for Julian Trousselliar and Best Art Direction for Amit and Subrata.[59] It won two awards – Best Cinematography and Best Production Design – at the 64th National Film Awards.[60]

Award Date of ceremony[a] Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards 13 January 2017 Best Production Design Subrata Chakraborthy
Amit Ray 		Won [61]
Best Visual Effects Julien Trousselier Won
Edison Awards 11 March 2017 Best Protagonist Suriya Won [62]
Best Antagonist Won
Filmfare Awards South 17 June 2017 Best Cinematographer – South Tirru Won [63]
[64]
Best Actor – Tamil Suriya Nominated
Critics Award for Best Actor – South Won
Best Actress – Tamil Samantha Akkineni Nominated
Best Supporting Actress – Tamil Nithya Menen Nominated
Best Music Director – Tamil A. R. Rahman Nominated
Best Lyricist – Tamil Madhan Karky ("Naan Un") Nominated
Best Male Playback Singer – Tamil Sid Sriram ("Mei Nigara") Nominated
Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil Chinmayi ("Naan Un") Nominated
National Film Awards 3 May 2017 Best Cinematography Tirru Won [65]
[66]
Best Production Design Subrata Chakraborthy
Shreyas Khedekar
Amit Ray 		Won
South Indian International Movie Awards 30 June – 1 July 2017 Best Actor – Tamil Suriya Nominated [67]
Zee Cinema Awards 25 March 2017 South Sensation of the Year Won [68]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Date is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.

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