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Roman(tic) Holiday

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Roman(tic) Hol­i­day [ Titling — kon­jam improve aagi irukke ! ]

Some­times, you need a no non­sense and feel good movie for enter­tain­ment. Just a story with­out any villain,family :),children,major issues, twists, med­ical prob­lems, guns [ Sigh..ha…] and of course the ele­ments of a reg­u­lar cin­ema. Can a BW movie made in 1953 enter­tain toto now ? Can it make the viewer to laugh ? Can it make the viewer to look for unit­ing the lead pair ? Can a roman­tic movie be taken as a thriller ? This movie does all of them.

Roman Hol­i­day — 1953, Roman­tic Comedy.
Directed by : William Wyler.
Cast : Gre­gory Peck, Audrey heb­bern [ Ahaa ].
         
The story is sim­ple. A princess named Ann tours Europe and vis­its the cap­i­tal cities. It’s a typ­i­cal tire­some, gloomy royal fam­ily rou­tine. She wants a sim­ple life where in she can decide what she wears, what she eats and where she roams. She has a list of small wishes [ Like our Sun­dara­pandiya­pu­ram Roja :) ]. The princess escapes from the palace, changes iden­tity (slightly) and has fun for a com­plete day. Dur­ing the escape she meets Joe. Our hero Joe is a press reporter who enjoys the day with her with the inten­tion of get­ting a cover story about the princess. They both mask their iden­ti­ties mutu­ally. What hap­pens at the end of the day ? Did the palace offi­cials find her ? What hap­pens to Joe’s secret work of get­ting her inter­view and pho­tos ? [ too many ques­tions man.. like in paatu book :) ].

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The dreary open­ing sequence tells you that it is not going to be the same, soon. The script is too good to have per­fect inci­dents that match and takes the flow. Enough time is given for any inci­dent to hap­pen. For ex Joe knows that she is a princess after he reads the news­pa­per. The way the story unfolds is very casual. They develop a chem­istry [ idhu illa­mala ! ] towards their disjoint.

Every sin­gle char­ac­ter has a neat role to play. The bar­ber, pho­tog­ra­pher, edi­tor, house owner etc., I liked the sim­ple char­ac­ters, story and the inter­est­ing screen­play. Sur­pris­ingly, it’s a 2 hrs movie. Ann’s reac­tions in Joe’s apart­ment is funny. [ in a sleepy state, she enters the small apart­ment and asks whether it is an ele­va­tor ?! ]. All the small fac­tors are con­sid­ered dur­ing the cli­max [ even the pho­tos they take ! ].

How about ARR scor­ing for Roman hol­i­day ? It has hap­pened .. of course, a crap direc­tor [?!! ]directed a junk movie called ‘May Mad­ham’ which is a car­bon copy of roman hol­i­day. End of the day, tamil film view­ers are left with some fan­tas­tic songs of ARR [ Min­nale, Margazi poove ].

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