Debutant director Gaurav’s creation ‘Thoonga nagaram’ is a gangster film with Vimal, Bharani, Nishanth and Anjali in the lead roles. It is a debut production by Dhayanidhi Alagiri's Cloud Nine Movies.

Quite appropriate to the title, ‘Thoonga nagaram’ is set in Madurai, the city that never sleeps and its adjoining areas. This is another blood and gore flick based in Madurai with the lead characters as Madurai based gangsters. The story revolves around happenings in Madurai city involving the lead four. Madurai is a city that values friendship and has the script breezing through four youngsters who are involved in a killing and are in a situation where anyone could get killed if caught. Here goes the story of sleepless moments of these four thereafter fearing death.

Pasanga and Kalavani fame Vimal plays the hero in this movie along with ‘Naadodigal’ fame Bharani and ‘Renigunta’ Nishanth in key roles. Anjali plays the female lead along with the trio. Director Gaurav, a former associate of KS Ravikumar himself dons an important role along with other supporting actors, Arunkumar, Singampuli and Madhumitha. The highlight of this film is that Minister MK Azhagiri will appear in a cameo role.

Music is by Sundar C. Babu, who made his debut in Chithiram Pesudhadi. ‘Kooraana Paarvai’ and ‘Thoonga nagaram’ are the two songs creating flutter. Thoonga nagaram should be absolutely grand to watch in the set created worth Rs. 50 lakhs erected in the river depicting Chithirai Thiruvizha festival, a yearly divine extravaganza in Madurai. Cinematography is by Vijay Ulaganathan, a former associate of KV Anand. The co-producer for the film is Vivek Rathinavelu, production supervision by K Sundararaj and executive production by Sushanth.

Will the tale about the ‘city that never sleeps’ give us sleepless nights? Will this yet another Madurai story leave an impression on viewer’s minds? Wait till Feb 4 to find out the answers.