Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa is a sweet love story of a Mechanical Engineer turned Assistant Director who falls in love with his Landlord’s daughter. Both belong to different religions and that’s the reason why girl’s father won’t approve. 15 minutes into the story and the hero drops the bomb saying I Love You and movie kick starts from there. She resists his emotions, he insists on his feelings. She has reasons to say know and he has the grit to stand with his point. She is engaged and going to marry someone. In the opening scene, she is walking down the aisle before the scene fades to past. Would he turn the table like Akshay did in Namaste London. No… he won’t. Will he get the girl… better watch the movie.
Concept wise the movie seems to be plagued by plethora of clichés; in reality it repels all of them. Shot simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil, both movies are same and different at the same time. A sub-plot in first is the plot of second (and vice versa). Though essentially the same story, both versions have different climaxes and both the climaxes has been shown in both the movies. How it is done? Well, kudos to fine scriptwriting and brilliant editing… and definitely, outstanding direction.
Chemistry between Trisha as Jessie and Silambarasan Rajendar as Karthik is awesome. There is a presence of sexual emotions taking over usually lovey dovey stuff making it more realistic than idealistic. Supporting cast including K. S. Ravikumar and Naga Chaitanya playing themselves, did justice to their roles. They are very realistic. The humor in the movie generally swings between wit and sarcasm. The turn of events is interesting and well drafted. Music is the high of the cinematic feel. It’s one of the best works by A. R. Rahman. Majority of songs are beautiful and even though I was parsing through the subtitles, I can still hum the song easily. Cinematography is brilliant. Kerela has been captured beautifully. One might feel like making it home.
Lastly… editing and direction of the movie were simply brilliant. Average job in these two segments would have reduced the movie to crap. Kudos to Anthony Gonsalves (Editor) and Gautham Menon (Director) for achieving such a high.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
1 comment:
WAs checking Wikipedia to know more about the movie. Surprised to know it had won Filmfare award for Best Music and Lyrics.
A good pick Sujoy.
The story of the movie is common and slow but Editor and Director have performed very well. Specially two climaxes and two movies within each other, now which is Director's real interpretation of the story, leaves viewer mesmerized.
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