Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya (2010) ***1/2

Love stories in cinema are immortal and Tamil movies had its golden moments with some time-less love stories.Gautham Menon usually gives love stories as passing plots which always have added magic in his movies .When this guy wanted to direct a full length light heart Love story there has to be a difference.And surprisingly there is difference in the way of outlook how we see the movie.VTV is not about the love alone its about two different characters of whom we get to see their moments after falling in love for each other.Vinnaithandi Varuvaya is a poetic name and the movie goes by its name.It can not be called as a Master Piece of Gautham but definitely I was much satisfied than Varanam Ayiram.

Gautham Menon’s love with Mechanical Engineering ,church marriages ,one liners continues.But definitely this time much intimate and closer to his heart.Karthik a Mechanical Engineering graduate an aspiring director falls in love with Jessy ,an IT professional.Jessy likes Karthik but she hesitates to accept because of her parents.At one point she expresses her interest and they wait for things to happen in their family.Jessy moves away from Karthik for no reason when she find nothing improving in her family.Jessy moves out of India and Karthik learns that she is married.Karthik meets his Jessy back after years and its nostalgic and definitive for the story.

Gautham makes a candid approach some thing which can be closer to Mouna Ragam,Before sunrise .He plays his game with two characters.He lets them cry ,laugh,long,speak and go on their ways.Their dreams are bigger ,but their love stands tall in between them.Gautham puts across a very realistic dialogues here.I would really accept, this gives the movie the realistic look.Its not all a movie touch to romance here,There is no gundas,they decide on their fate and Gautham uses Emotions as characters here to move his plot.Its more of conversation perceptibly intimate on their love,dreams and their life ahead.Any one would have their own moments because its easily relatable.This movie just makes Gautham’s writing skill to get noted than his direction.

Simbu plays his best character of his life time and he is smart .Every frame is apparent that he wants to break from his usual roles.He takes up this character so seriously and he has displayed enormous amount of maturity as an actor in his performance,Modulation,Body language.Trisha is a finest exhibition of intelligence,enigma and beauty.The character itself is a mystery and Trisha has perfected it so beautifully and had read the lines from Gautham’s mind so well.There aren’t much of support characters but Ganesh as friend of Simbu provides the humor through his outlook on Simbu’s behavior.

AR.Rahman with Gautham and Thamarai is definitely not a ordinary affair.Three of them wants the best and they provide their magic in their own ways.Aromale defines the mood of the movie and it plays as a haunting ballad throughout.Manoj camera is another character in the movie.It just brings the whole mood and tone to the emotions of Karthik and Jessy.The camera more than being fresh it tries to be very earnest to the script and it adds up beauty to the movie.

The end may not be conventional and any relation which had lots of questions has to end mysteriously or unconventionally.Gautham has been brave to tell this script because if you think back there isnt much of twist or a big tale to tell.He had the faith on his writing and he has done it with style.This wouldn’t go as one of the greatest but definitely a fresh way of looking in to romance in our space.The movie in the second half breaks away badly in to patches with Karthik’s dream and a romance but it had to be told other wise it would have been just a conversational affair.Gautham didn’t make this movie with scenes rather he has trusted so much on his simple dialogues and performances which I liked.For sure VTV doesn’t have great dialogues but it goes as the day to day conversation of two people who are madly in love.

VTV is sleek,realistic,expressive and it would be loved by many for its simplicity.A definite watch !

Rating : ***1/2