ந‌ல்ல‌ ப‌ட‌த்தை தேடிப்போக‌முடியாது..அது நிலைக்காது
அதுவா ந‌ட‌க்க‌ணும்
ந‌ம‌க்கு பிடிக்க‌ வைக்க‌ணும்
அதையே யோசிக்க‌ வைக்க‌ணும்
அதான் ந‌ல்ல‌ ப‌ட‌ம்..
என‌க்கு அது ந‌ட‌ந்த‌து, உத‌ய‌ம் தியேட்ட‌ர்ல‌ :)

கார்த்திக்கிற்கு ஜெஸ்ஸியைப் பிடிக்கும்
என‌க்கு ந‌ல்ல‌ சினிமாவை !

Idhay­athai Thiru­dathe was the first out­right roman­tic movie I have ever seen and the impact the film made, at that age was tremen­dous. If God­fa­ther can be con­sid­ered as the father of don movies, Alai­payuthe in Tamil would be the mark of straight-forward and col­or­ful roman­tic movie. Manirathnam’s present focus is to do high bud­get Hindi films and his place is empty with respect to sto­ry­telling with a local plot. Gau­tham fills that place com­fort­ably. Alai­payuthe, Cin­ema Par­adiso are the base threads of this movie.

Every cre­ator has his strength and weak­ness. Manirathnam’s weak­ness is humor [ Agni Natchathi­ram ! ] — ARmurugadass’s strength is again romance; I strongly believe Gajini’s suc­cess is that romance part rather than the dou­ble action stunts. Gautham’s strength is story telling — yes Nar­ra­tion in first person’s per­spec­tive. This time he has used his strength alone and suc­ceeded in the same. Nice come back after a drag­ging tale Vaar­nam aayiram.

Feel good n roman­tic movies become very rare in Tamil and this film ful­fills that miss­ing ele­ment. This movie has proved that a light movie can have its own ele­ments of sus­pense, twists and turns. I sug­gest bet­ter go to a good the­atre with­out know­ing any­thing about the story.

Story

It’s not a story actu­ally. Few hap­pen­ings in Karthik / Jessie’s par­tic­u­lar part of life with inter­est­ing sus­pense, twists and turns.

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Once, I was asked the actual role of a direc­tor. It’s every­thing in the movie right from choos­ing the title fonts, titling [ this film titling was excel­lent ! ] till the end cred­its of the movie. Gau­tham is one such direc­tor with com­plete con­trol from the first frame to the last.  He com­pletely steers the ship [ GVM 8004 — if you watch songs keenly :) ] right from the first frame to the last with the help of all the other tech­ni­cians. The tech­ni­cians who pro­gressed a step fur­ther are Manoj parama­hamsa, Nalini Sri­ram and of course, ARR. Thama­rai could have used this won­der­ful oppur­tu­nity bet­ter — not bad. [ வ‌ர‌ம் கிடைத்தும் நான் த‌வ‌ற‌விட்டேன்.. ம‌ன்னிப்பாயா அன்பே ! ].

 Simbu and Trisha do won­ders in this film. They just per­formed what is expected from them and noth­ing more than that. Of course, roles those are rel­e­vant to their age. Of late, I was won­der­ing why our tamil film char­ac­ters don’t wear that’s any­thing con­sid­ered as casual and avail­able in the real world. This film cools and con­soles us with a won­der­ful wardrobe for the char­ac­ters. So next time, don’t blame a hero but a direc­tor if he dances crazily again with lungi, head band and Nike shoes :).

The script, char­ac­ter­i­za­tions, pic­tur­i­sa­tion are too good to get eas­ily attached with the film and the high­light is straight for­ward dia­logues. The movie is heav­ily inspired from Alai­payuthe [ right from hero’s name, hero’s cam­era­man friend, prob­a­bil­ity of locat­ing a girl, search­ing in Ker­ala  and a con­fi­dent hero­ine ] and Cin­ema Par­adiso [ young direc­tor, love­able girl, departed lovers, first film, beach house, look­ing back life ]. Of course, he can­not go for Ennio Mor­ri­cone and hence ARR :).  Gau­tham clev­erly inserted the cam­era­man char­ac­ter Ganesh [ one of the prod­cuers ! — remem­ber the call taxi dri­ver in Pachaik­ili Muthuchcharam ] who rep­re­sents the audi­ence with apt reac­tions and humourous com­ments. Thank God that Vivek was not casted for that role !

It got a won­der­ful inter­mis­sion sequence and all is well till that moment. n for some more time.. Then as usual the imbal­ance game starts :( . The film is too good till the last 40 min­utes. When refer­ring “Malargalle” song from love birds, Sujatha said that this song starts with a beau­ti­ful raaga and then the song goes to parade­sam :) Sim­i­larly, the film goes to parade­sam [lit­er­ally ! ] in the last 40 min­utes. The inter­est­ing busi­ness aspect of this film is that it is par­al­lely remade in Tel­ugu with Naga Chai­tanya [ Nagarjuna’s son !! ] and of course this movie has Malay­alam ele­ments which makes this film to run eas­ily in Kerala.

 Manoj Parama­hamsa [ son of Tel­ugu Direc­tor ] made his debut in the film Eeram and he does magic in this film. He adds the fla­vor to the col­or­ful and bub­bly movie. The intro­duc­tion of Allepey is fan­tas­tic [ they use a fast for­ward tech­nique as in the film “Snatch” ]. ARR said Gau­tham shoots every bit of the music with pas­sion and respect. Very true. Watch the Hosanna which was shot in the beau­ti­ful Europen coun­try Malta — a per­fect exam­ple of how to catch the best of a for­eign loca­tion and have our song there. All the songs are aptly placed and carry the story for­ward — espe­cially the songs “Omanap penne” [ clas­sic from Benny Dayal’s voice — a song which can’t be repli­cated in any stage orches­tra ! ] and Man­nip­paaya. Songs and their pic­tur­i­sa­tion at its best. The above still is just a sam­ple for the visuals.

 ARR — Gau­tham brought in 2 changes in his crew this time. ARR and chore­o­g­ra­pher Flexi Stu in place of Brinda. Though the movie is inspired from Alai­payuthe, the dif­fer­ence is made by ARR. His music dif­fers a lot from his Alai­payuthey days. Music trav­els along with the movie all the way. He used the ini­tial cello music [ Kan­nukkul kan­nai ] in dif­fer­ent places in dif­fer­ent ways. The big change in the song for­mat is none of the song comes in the reg­u­lar struc­ture of pallavi — 2 saranams and of course, the vari­ety of voices he had used !

 It’s a treat to watch and hear this film in a decent n well equipped the­atre. There are very few direc­tors in Tamil who can make movies that can be watch­able in Sathyam or PVR.  This is one such film.

Pic­ture in a poetic form !

 -Toto.

 [ Thank God for your review avoid­ing junk triv­ias like the hero­ine works in Polaris whereas hero’s father char­ac­ter Kitti actu­ally works as HR Pres­i­dent in Polaris in real life.. Ha..ha.. ].

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