ROOM BOY TAMIL MOVIE REVIEW
Cast: C. Nikhil, Harsha, Imaan Annachi, Birla Bose, Prabhakar, Kaathukkaruppu Kalai
Director: Jagan Rayan
Room Boy builds a small thriller around a real anxiety: hidden cameras in hotel rooms, footage used to blackmail guests. Debut director Jagan Rayan sets it in a Yelagiri hotel, and the hook itself does most of the work.
Sanjay (C. Nikhil) leaves an observation home and takes up a room boy job at the Queen Mark Hotel, where the conditions are rough and the manager is a tyrant. He befriends a colleague (Kaathukkaruppu Kalai) and strikes up a tentative romance with a tourist named Nisha (Harsha). The first half drifts. A murder at interval finally gets things moving.
The second half is where the film earns its keep. Twists arrive in quick succession, a masked killer’s identity slots into threads left lying around, and Sanjay’s reasons for this job turn out to be more specific than they looked. Nothing groundbreaking, but coherent enough to land.
Nikhil, a real-life twelfth standard student, does a decent job – better in action than in emotional beats. Harsha barely has room to do anything. Imaan Annachi and Prabhakar get the most mileage from the supporting cast. Bharathi Rajan’s cinematography is the one consistent plus. Songs are forgettable.
A watchable thriller with a decent concept and a back half that does its job.