Vaaranam Aayiram Movie Review

When Simran runs to help the struggling Surya screaming in a urban english accent ‘What happened ?……...’ in the initial minutes , we are reaffirmed of the fact the movie is niched for a select urban audience who need to prepare themselves for viewing a different genre of movie , a slow saga and breaks all the mirch masala . You would love the movie if your into it with out any pre- conceived notions and expectations about the movie.

Sharing my thoughts which I felt interesting to me .

Gautham is incredible . He’s the next best to Mani Ratnam in handling romance , he’s best in the mush . The Surya – Sameera scenes are truly no words to describe . What a vibrancy and youthfulness ! Let it be the train romance or be the berkely episode , every frame is literally painted like a poem. Can some one other than Gautham think about a gal proposing to an adorable guy standing under the clouds , with a view of the lovely Golden bridge in San Francisco . These should sweep every one by their feet for sure. No way , give credits to this guy . Awesome photography , lovely music and impressive costumes – only gautham can do such wonders .

Surya for sure is incredible . Be the dad or the son , he’s given one hell of a performance . His painstaking effort is evident in every frame , he look worth more than one million bucks .He has taken utmost care in his looks , he fits in as a ‘T’ in almost every make over through his various stages of life. He is able to change himself for the mood of the movie quite easily.His emotional break up to his dad and mom on losing his love through a phone is the best . He should make gals go crazy over those romantic interludes. The portions where he suffers from an emotional break and the way how he comes out of it is quite unusual yet different.

Sameera Reddy , C’mon guys should i say anything more.

Very rarely , we could find an urban family being portrayed in tamil movies. I think those segments were etched out well. .It’s delightful to see a dad being so cool and casual with his son , being a friend , asking his son to follow his heart.How nice a dad calls his son by cute nick name .Even when I was a child , I have seen my neighbors converse very casually in English at home.So the director is not at fault , he has just shown the environment in which he grew up .

The music has really carried out the movie incredibly to new levels . Each and every song is a visual splendor . The Raja’s classical cult is brought out in the most lovable way in the movie. Adiyae Kolluthaey for sure rocks big time . Nenjukkul Peidhidum is actually painted . Mundinam Paarthanae could have been justified better with visuals.Only Gautham has the guts to have a romantic classical in the likes of Anal male panithuli towards the end of movie . Sad , that this is probably the last Gautham – Harris combination.

The dad – son relation ship should have been the most compelling factor of the movie .But these portions were pretty few and lite. There should be been more depth in trying to build up the character of Krishnan and on how be became the role model to his son.This the weak point of the movie , the dad is super uber cool and romantic but some how I felt it lacked depth and the strong bonding with the son wasnt that impressive. Had there been few more lorry and the cricket positive energy episodes , it would have been really nice.

The movie doesn’t advocate ‘No Smoking’ . But it has implicitly brought out very the message well.The movie is for sure a good one , though it could have been better.The movie towards the second half trodden towards unprecedented terrains , it drags a bit but since the movie moves through eventually to a son whose desperate to see his dad .

The movie cannot be termed as one of the classics but it was good attempt though falling short by miles.Movies like this has to be well received so that tamil movies can move to the next level.

Hats off to Gautham for a straight from the heart movie 🙂