Mutham


Mutham is a 2002 Indian Tamil-language slasher film directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar. The film stars Arun Vijay, Sathyan, Nagendra Prasad, Ajayan, Charulatha, Nanditha Jennifer and Anjali. The film, produced by M. Arul Moorthy, was released on 6 December 2002.

Plot

Joseph and Sudha get married against their parents' wishes and they elope with their friends' help. Sudha's father, a politician, wants to kill Sudha and her friends. They arrive at a beach resort where they meet an old man who warns them about the dangers at the resort. He tells them that the place is haunted and murders can take place. The friends arrange for the couple's honeymoon, ignoring his pleadings to vacate the place. However, in the forest, all the friends get murdered one by one. It turns out that the old man was the one who committed these killings as he explains his flashback of his granddaughter getting killed in the name of sacrifice by unscrupulous businessmen for the sake of buying the forest where the resort has been built and as for that, he kills each and every person who visits this resort. In the end, the old man gets stabbed and Arun and his lover escape from the place being worried about the situation.

Production

The film was developed under the title Muthamidalaama and was touted as India's first digital film made for theatres. The film was shot for fifty days in forests across Tirupati, Hogenakkal Falls, Yelagiri hills and Alappuzha.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Bharani.
SongSingerLyricsDuration
"La La La"Tippu, HariniSnehan4:59
"Laiko Laiko"Malgudi SubhaThamarai4:56
"Orampo Orampo"Harish Raghavendra, K. S. ChithraSnehan4:54
"Oru Murai Nee Yennai"P. Unni Krishnan, S. A. ChandrasekharNewton3:31
"Saturday Sunday"TippuPa. Vijay5:05
"Tigirtana"Harish Raghavendra, SwarnalathaNewton5:17

Critical reception

A critic from Sify wrote that "S.A.Chandrasekhar’s blend of tacky horror mixed with Alphonsa’s dance number in the jungle is all intolerable". Tulika from Rediff.com wrote that "As a film, Mutham is eminently forgettable. But at the technological level, it could turn out to be the trailblazer that changes the way films are shot in India". Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote that "But while they've borrowed the main plot, they've worked on the script and added their own interesting touches. But Chandrasekhar has not been able to do that, with both his inspirations turning out to be just bad copies". Cinesouth wrote, "Tamil's first digital experimentation didn't have to turn out to be so pathetic". Yahoo wrote "Director S A Chandrasekar seems to think that a few girls in 'trendy' clothes will cover the huge lapses in content. But alas! 'Mutham' ends up as a film that does not do justice to either the 'love' or the 'suspense' genre!".