Set in sunny San Francisco, Meiporul is a thriller shot in the most unassuming manner! The story revolves around Sam (Krish Bala) who is a India-born surgeon and his wife Devi (Anusha). Devi one day when at the petrol bunk, discovers an Indian child in an American lady’s car. She finds it suspicious, and gets the news through the radio tuned in her car, about an Indian child being kidnapped. She immediately tracks down the details and informs the police and the American lady is arrested!

Devi then returns home, and finds her name being splashed in all television channels for saving the life of a child. Devi works for a local Tamil publication, and the editor of the magazine decides to give an article about her in the cover story.

Devi and Sam are a happy couple. They spend a lot of time together and have a lot of concern for each other. Sam’s close friend Vishwa (Narayan) is constantly out of jobs, but is always there to lend a shoulder to cry on, for Sam.

One day, Sam loses his purse at a local bar, which is picked up by Rajan (Natty Kumar). Sam thanks Rajan for the help and the two of them become good friends. Rajan, describes himself as a scientist working for NASA.

He predicts that Sam’s next operation will be a failure. Furthermore, he amazes Sam, with his ability to foresee and predict the future with absolute precision including the date and time of such events. Sam completely is enamored by Rajan’s abilities and soon starts trusting him. Vishwa and Devi, rubbish Sam’s claims and try to convince him not to believe in such things.

One fine morning, Dharan (Suren Vijayakumar), a popular actor from south India, comes to meet Sam to get a surgery done for himself. Devi and Dharan become good friends and soon start going out together. Dharan is invited home for lunch, but Sam gets a call from Rajan, requesting for an immediate appointment. Rajan, predicts that Sam will die on the 10th of August, but refuses to explain why and how!

In the meanwhile, Sam’s friend Vishwa, having grown suspicious has hired a private detective agent to keep an eye on Sam and Rajan.

What will happen to Sam? Will he die on the 10th of August? Is Vishwa the killer? What will happen to Devi? To know more, do watch this edge of the seat thriller, to be released on the 1st of May, 2009.

The movie has already won rave reviews from critics and from several special screenings held till date. Natty Kumar’s father T.N. Janakiraman, is a happy man since the response has been very encouraging! This could herald a wave of off-beat films in Tamil, as it will definitely; find support with the audience for its realistic portrayal of events and characters.

When we spoke to Natty Kumar, he said that, passion for cinema is what united Krish Bala, Narayan and himself for this project. Natty Kumar hails from a family that has produced at least half a dozen films, so it’s only obvious that films are in his blood! Together, they formed ‘ Dreams on Frames’ Production house and started working on Meiporul.

The cast and the crew are completely from the U.S. and none of them have had any formal training in the medium before.

Natty is armed with an associate degree in film making and TV production from California. Krish Bala is a software engineer while Anusha Ramanujam is a graduate of Anna University, Chennai and is currently working in the U.S. Chris Eldridge the cinematographer has shot from several random angles and that has made it more natural.

So what’s the film all about? It is a neat, realistic, suspense thriller with a tight screenplay! We now see a new breed of film makers in Tamil cinema.