Kannamma (Vadivukarasi) runs a retail fish business at Kasimedu Fishing Port. His adopted children Surya (Michael Thangadurai), Karthi (Afsal Hameed), Soundarya (Gabrilla) and Abhinaya (Vinusha) all live around the same port. College student Vijay (Akshay Kamal)
He comes to this district with his friends and spends time drinking and smoking. Fatima (Anupama Kumar) is an honest and strict inspector in the N4 police station of the area. The story is about how a gun blast brings them together and then ends the conflicts and contradictions these characters face.
If a major incident is going to determine the course of the screenplay and reveal internal and external conflicts between the characters, it is important to have it happen within the first 20 minutes. While the main plot of the film is compelling, the ending of the first half of the film tests the audience’s patience.
Director Lokesh Kumar has portrayed the concept of the simple, the strong withering away, the moral view of how life’s inability defeats those who hold fast to integrity, and how it affects others as well.
The director can be commended for showing that the seafarers, commoners and middle class living there have a lot to talk about, much to the shame of those who take pleasure in portraying many parts of North Chennai, including Kasimedu, as ‘guilty’.
Vadivukkarasi who plays Kannamma and Kagumo who plays Veluth Datta have proved to be veteran artists. All the four who are acting as adopted children have spoken in the case of Chennai and acted naturally. Although Gabriella overacts in some places as the vivacious woman, it is fitting. Heavy role for Anupama Kumar. He has realized it and acted. For Abhishek who comes as sub-inspector
He is taking advantage of the opportunity to showcase his acting after a long gap.
Divyang has vividly shot the habitat of the characters and the Kasimedu area where the story takes place. Balasubramanian.ji’s music makes the plot feel more intimate through songs with a Ghanaian feel.
‘N4’ would have given a more complete screen experience if more attention had been paid to the screenplay for the story that connects the storytellers with different living conditions.