Oru Nadigaiyin Vaakkumoolam

Production

Rajkrishna chose to make a film focussing on the life of an actress and the downfall of her career, and approached Sonia Agarwal to enact the lead character. Sonia accepted to work on the film after relating to script, stating that she also went through certain hardships during her time as an actress and lost weight to star in the film. The actress however clarified to the media before release that the film was not based on her life or any other actress's life.

The success of the Hindi film, The Dirty Picture (2011), which was based on the same theme, created extra publicity for the film. Impressed with Sonia's performance during the shoot, Rajkrishna signed her on for his next film too, titled Achchamenna with Jithan Ramesh, but the film eventually did not materialise.

Release

The film opened to negative reviews in February 2012, with Behindwoods.com giving the film 1.5 out of 5 stars calling it a "pensive account". A critic from Sify.com noted "the narrative style is outdated, the proceedings are disjointed and the screenplay lacks any coherence or logic" and added "a theme that had the potential to be an engrossing tale turns out to be a dull fare with diluted and archaic approach". A second critic from Sify.com noted that "a premise that has to be insightful, dark and disturbing falls flat with an amateurish direction, jarring music and background score, wrong supporting cast, tacky production values and an old fashioned presentation". Likewise, The Hindu also gave the film a negative review, concluding the "script is weak and the dialogues repetitive".