‘Boy follows her’
‘Girl showing attitude’
‘Boy proposes’
‘Girl refuses (force of repulsion)’
‘She encounters a problem in her life to get married to some one’
‘Later Girl accepts the boy’s proposal’
‘Love blossoms (force of attraction)’
‘Same problem creeps in her life (not again)’
‘the same force of repulsion applied from the girl’s end’
‘Boy gets frustrated’ and the cycle or rather this movie goes on and on …….
If you get really involved by this type of story telling wherein the characters are itself confused more than the audience then vinnai thandi varuvaya (VTV) would be your cup of tea/coffee whatever.
This is the first Tamil film I am watching on a big screen for the sole reason ‘A R Rahman’s music’. Being a malayalee I was taken by surprise over the malayalam number ‘Aromale’ which really triggered me to get prudent checking the daily newspaper to get some news of VTV getting released here. The news appeared, I booked the tickets and watched it for almost 3 hours.
Yes, the movie is almost 3 hours which could have been easily curtailed by one hour. The first half was tolerable as it gained some pace but it’s the second half which really made adjust my seats, check my watch, also yawn, also made me realize what all tasks are pending for tomorrow’s office work. Phewwwww.
Secondly, for a love story to click the songs plays a major key. Here the song picturization, the timing of the song, the choreography, the song location are below par. Was thinking how Gautam convinced Rahman to do this film. Rahman’s music in VTV is very good but it’s not intelligently used by Gautam. It doesn’t gel with the scene and creates a disconnect, making the audience take a break and ponder things which are not linked with the movie or the characters.
The performances from the cast was also not extra-ordinary, it was expected from these actors. As the role was very contemporary, it didn’t seem challenging. Expected Trisha to come with good lip sync for malayalam dialogues, as the strain was clearly visible. Rest of the cast were decent nothing over the top nor extra-ordinary.
Gautam Menon lost the plot completely. For any love story there has to be an emotional connect between the characters and the audience. I didn’t find any connect. Was yawning when the characters were trying to hard to build a connect, in the second half. Also I was not able to figure why Rahman hooked to this project, as musically this film didn’t do much wonder while watching. It didn’t had the Rahman’s stamp for the background scores either.
Except the first half and the last five minutes of the movie I really was not able to find this movie entertaining at all. The positive I took from this movie (Spoiler)
My Rating:2/5
P.S. I watched this movie with English Subtitles in one of the multiplexes at Pune
i wanted to watch the movie here last friday , but the screens were going housefull . might down load and watch the same now
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