The Road (2023 film)

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The Road
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byArun Vaseegaran
Written byArun Vaseegaran
Starring
CinematographyK. G. Venkatesh
Edited byA. R. Shivaraj
Music by Sam C. S.
Production
company
AAA Cinemaa
Release date
  • 6 October 2023 (2023-10-06)
Running time
142 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

The Road is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film [1] written and directed by Arun Vaseegaran in his directorial debut. The films stars Trisha as Meera, who sets out to find the real cause of a tragedy that has befallen her family. The cast also features Shabeer Kallarakkal, Santhosh Prathap, Miya George, Vivek Prasanna, Vela Ramamoorthy and M. S. Bhaskar. [2] [3]

Contents

The Road was released on 6 October 2023 to mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

Meera lives happily with her husband Anand, a wildlife photographer, and her son, Kavin. During pregnancy, she and her husband plan a road trip to Kanyakumari on Kavin's birthday. Upon the doctor's advice, she decides to skip the journey and asks Anand to continue the journey with Kavin.

Anand and Kavin die on the way when their car collides with businessman Gangadharan's car that was heading to Chennai. Following the accident, Meera's friend Uma and her husband Prasad reach the hospital and inform Meera about it. Meera reaches the hospital and falls unconscious after hearing about her husband and son's deaths. She attempts suicide after losing her unborn child, but Uma's timely intervention saves her.

While Meera and Uma visit the accident site, they meet Kaaturosa, who takes them to her house. Through Kaaturosa's father, Meera and Uma learn about the accidents that have happened on the route before. Meera witnesses an accident on the road and reports it to sub-inspector M. Moorthy of the Tirumangalam police station. He finds no trace of the car or the person at the scene, but head constable M. Subramani suspects that something has happened.

Meera sets out to find out the reason behind accidents occurring only in a particular zone on the NH 44. At the police station, Gangadharan's son, Sundar, tells Meera that his father was not drunk while driving. Meera and Subramani approach Dr. Madhana Gopal, who prepared the autopsy report. On his suggestion, they seek the help of forensic experts to look for any alcohol traces in Gangadharan's car. The forensic team discovers caltrops on the vehicle's tyre but no indications of alcohol traces.

Meera and Subramani find Ponnudurai, who forcefully infused alcohol into Gangadharan's body for money. They learn that he received money from the bank account of a villager and find Bhaskaran, who was responsible for transferring it. Bhaskaran reveals the existence of a secret network behind everything. Uma tells Meera about dark banking and how several underprivileged people receive money through bank accounts under Bhaskaran's control. Meera tells Uma about how the secret network headed by an unknown person targets travellers on the National Highway to loot money and jewels, and that they targeted Gangadharan's car to rob something other than money.

Meera discovers that Kaaturosa has admitted her husband, son, and Gangadharan to the hospital. Kaaturosa, who witnessed the accident, reveals the involvement of Prasad in Gangadharan's car robbery. Meera and Subramani trace the gang's location from the geographic coordinates received on Bhaskaran's mobile. There, they are held hostage by the gang members. Prasad appears with them and tells Meera about his intentions. Chella, the gang leader's friend, tries to kill Meera. But Uma arrives suddenly with a gun and helps Meera and Subramani escape.

Meera finds a house under Prasad's possession with Uma's help and realises that he is the one who controls the entire network from a private number. Subramani calls Meera and tells her about Chella's friend Mayazhagan, who was a college professor ten years ago. From Prasad's laptop, Meera learns that Gangadharan was actually a gold-smuggling consultant, and he planned to smuggle 500 kg of gold from Kerala to Mumbai through NH 44.

Mayazhagan makes a plan to attack Arumai Chandran, the minister's benami, who is going to smuggle gold per Gangadharan's plan. As per Mayazhagan's plan, Chella and Prasad snatch Arumai Chandran's car on the way and leave him. While calling Chella, Mayazhagan realises that Arumai Chandran is not in the car and that there is no gold inside. He tells Chella to get down, but an explosion kills both Chella and Prasad. Meera comes on call and challenges Mayazhagan to come look for her.

Meera learns about Padma, alias Padmapriya, Arumai Chandran's second wife, and a sumggler herself. She suspects that Padma arrived in Kerala with a different plan, as she was not involved in the ongoing smuggling. Meera targets Padma, who is travelling with smuggled gold, and kidnaps her to Prasad's house. Mayazhagan finds Meera there and injures her. He falls upon seeing Padma, who was actually responsible for all the woes he faced in the past. Meera kills Mayazhagan when he attempts to kill Padma.

Cast

Production

The film is the directorial debut of Arun Vaseegaran. [4] [5] The title of the film was revealed on 25 April 2022. [6] [7] Filming began in May 2022. [8] The film was nearing completion in July 2022. [9] The director confirmed that Trisha will be playing lead role in the film. [10]

Music

The music for the film was composed by Sam C. S.

The Road
Soundtrack album by
Sam C. S.
Released2023
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length9:11
LanguageTamil
Label Tips Tamil
Producer Sam C. S.
Sam C. S. chronology
Red Sandalwood
(2023)		The Road
(2023)		 Raid
(2023)
Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Dummalangi" Sam C. S. Chinmayi, Sameera Baradwaj4:00
2."Nagaraatha Nodiyodu" Karthik Netha Kapil Kapilan 4:09
3."Oh Vidhi"Karthik Netha Sid Sriram 5:02
4."Veera"Karthik Netha Arunraja Kamaraj, Sam C. S.3:57
Total length:17:08

Release

The film was released on 6 October 2023 in theatres. [11]

Home media

Aha purchased the post-theatrical digital rights and began streaming it on 10 November 2023. [12] [13]

Reception

The Road received mixed reviews from critics. [14] [15] [16]

M. Suganth of The Times of India gave 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, "The investigation part largely works, and the director manages to keep the mystery under wraps until the reveal, but the film turns pretty generic once we get the identity of the mastermind behind the chilling crimes." [17] K. Janani of India Today gave 2 out of 5 stars and wrote, "'The Road' could have been a solid thriller with a few surprises in the screenplay. Unfortunately, there are only a few redeeming aspects in the film." [18]

Anusha Sundar of Cinema Express gave 1.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, "The Road isn't just a substandard mixed bag of many elements together but has a problematic moral compass on pressing issues of today's times." [19] Bhuvanesh Chander of The Hindu wrote, "For Trisha, who once again shows that she deserves a script worth her stardom and heart, The Road offers nothing new and her poor run with solo lead films continues." [20] Swathi P. Ajith of Onmanorama wrote, "The film deserves recognition for its attempt to introduce a fresh concept, intertwining two parallel narratives and merging them into a coherent storyline." [21]

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