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Friday, September 20, 2024
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TAMIL VINNAITHAANDI VARUVAAYA
EDITOR'S PICK
`Vinnai Thaandi...` - more style, less substance (Tamil
Film Review)
Rating:**1/2
Gautam Vasudev Menon`s Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya is a clean romantic
story without any deviation or sub-plots. While he succeeds in telling the love
story in a pleasing manner, he fails to present the lead pair`s separation
convincingly.
The film is about Karthik (Simbu), an engineering graduate, who yearns to become
a director and falls for beautiful Jesse (Trisha), the daughter of his landlord.
Karthik tails Jesse for days before revealing his love for her.
Though Jesse likes him, she tells him that her family is dead against love and
advises him to treat her just as a friend. And Karthik agrees.
Then at one point of time Jesse realises that she too loves Karthik and tells
him so. But at the same time, she is still apprehensive about her father and
decides to bury her feelings for Karthik for her family`s sake.
Jesse`s father fixes her marriage to a person of his choice. Jesse, who accepts
it initially, ends up calling off the wedding as she cannot forgo her love for
Karthik. But she isn`t ready to elope with Karthik either as she doesn`t want to
hurt her father.
The film drags on with the waiting game - nothing much happens except for the
lovers meeting each other. Meanwhile, Karthik gets a chance to work as an
assistant director and Jesse suddenly decides that their relationship won`t work
and she leaves Karthik.
What happens to the lovers and their love forms the rest of the story that
culminates in an interesting but poorly executed twist.
Menon has presented the lead pair`s relationship in a lovable manner. The
dialogues are sharp and sensitive as well.
The way Simbu acts out his love for the heroine is charming and the ambiguous
reactions from Trisha are nice.
The problem with the film is that it tries to bank heavily on style than
substance. The reason and provocation for the separation are far from
convincing. The screenplay falls flat when Jesse decides to put an end to the
affair for almost no valid reason.
A.R. Rahman`s music is a class apart. The title song and the `Omanapennae` song
are very good. The background score is top notch. Manoj`s cinematography is
spectacular and Nalini Sriram`s costumes for Trisha are fabulous.
Trisha impresses with her mischievous looks and smile.
For Simbu, the role is very different from his earlier roles. Menon has managed
to bring out the mature actor in Simbu sans his gimmicks and cliched heroism.
The movie is appealing in the first half but goes wayward in the second half due
to a dragging script and unconvincing twists.
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