Vaaranam Aayiram review
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Friday, 14 November 2008 06:54
Cast: Surya Siva Kumar, Simran, Divya Spandana, Sameera Reddy and others
Music: Harris Jayaraj
Direction: Gautham Vasudev Menon
Producer: Aascar Films
Vaaranam Aayiram is a typical Gautham Menon film which seems to be pretty close to his real life and has a message at an end. The movie has a three hour long heavy sentiment drama, which has all the ingredients of Romance, love, comedy and at last advocates non- smoking heavily, as it gives a hard slap to all the smokers who can face the harsh consequence of Cancer. Surya is superb and Simran steals the show with her superb acting skills.
Story
Surya (Junior Surya), the son of Krishnan is an emotionally bonded guy with his parents and his sister. He grows up seeing his parent’s immense love towards each other and the passion towards him and his sister. The different phases of life, are well depicted in this film as the child, teenage life, adulthood in a man’s world are well illustrated. Surya is closely attached to his father and Simran who plays the character of mother to him inspires him for being strongly will powered and also to be emotionally weak sometimes.
Krishnan (Senior Surya) is Surya’s Father who is a middle class man and ventures out to USA in order to fetch his true love Simran. They marry and are proud parents of two siblings. Surya and his sister as told earlier get the inspiration and lesson from their parents that nothing is impossible in this world if your dedication and the sanctity in heart are well pure.
With these principles, Junior Surya gets into his adult hood with a brief love phase in his life. He falls in love with Meghna (Sameera reddy) but the love ends as soon as it is started as Meghna decides to part her ways in order to pursue her professional dreams. She prefers to chase her dreams rather than accompanying Surya. Moved by this Surya regrets to be in love with Meghna and desires for a beloved who is in lines of his mother Malini (Simran).
Surya fetches a defense cop career and is posted somewhere in Jammu and Kashmir. After a few reels of regular kidnapping and goon bashing drama, Surya’s heroic skills are well expressed. Unfortunately he is informed about his father Krishnan’s illness of cancer and leaves the base camp, to be with his family.
He immediately packs and moves to his family and realizes that his father Krishnan is ill and his mother Malini is shaken by this incident. But again, Krishnan inspires his son by his strong will power and determination to invade out through his illness.
Then Surya’s wife Priya (Divya Spandana) enters his life and they marry happily. But Krishnan’s illness deepens day by day and this makes him close to his grave. In a scene which is heart touching, where he tries hard to express something to his grandson, but fails to do as his Vocal Cords fail indicating the last stages of life.
The whole movie is packed with sentiment and love towards a family and the movie is loaded with an emotional drama in every scene.
Finally, the movie ends with a justified climax and this is a suspense which must be seen on the big screen.
Performances
Surya Siva Kumar plays the dual role of Krishnan and Surya in this film. The actor doesn’t need a certificate for his acting as he has immense talent. The senior surya looks more promising with his make up and depicts a perfect middle aged person with lots of experience to reveal. Junior Surya plays the role of an obedient son to his father and is tinged with some love, romance and mother sentiment from the female characters.
Simran plays the character of Malini who is a Pativratha to Krishnan. She plays the role with ease and takes on the limelight of this film.
Priya is the character played by Divya Spandana. The character demands some love, attitude and also sometimes emotions and Divya Justifies her character as a wife to Surya.
Sameera Reddy enters the life of the hero like a breeze and plays the character of Meghna. She moves around the trees with the hero and finally departs.
O the whole, the movie is highly sentimental drama which has nothing for the mass crowds. The movie will surely hit the 50 day mark, due to its touching story. But may finally give up after 70 day mark.
Although the story line is not realistic but the acting skills are excellent. If anyone go to watch this movie with the expectation of action and supense sequences then it will be a disspointment. But if you go with an open mind I am sure with pleasing music and father son sentiments, any sensible person who value those affections and respect to their parents will surely enjoy this movie. Not a bad movie to watch. Very good message to the common public.
I really like this movie. it did defy some traditions (like the sex b4 marriage) and irked some people. The fact that the movie actually had a story line pissed off the usual masala loving mundane crowd. I hope this movie gets back what it invested and some more. We need more movies like this.
Utter boring.Surya and Harris hold the movie.Gautham Menon is copying Manirathnan but it doesn’t worked this time.Simran and Surya comes in 60’s costume while others in that malini scene are dressed in modern way.What is it?Gautham Menon is over confident but sameera rocks.
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this is the worst piece of shit ive ever seen. i died of utter boredom. movies are made for entertainment not depression. nice try for a mental institution. if you would like to commit suicide this is the perfect movie for you.
conclusion. PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THIS CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i agree with u andy. what on earth was he thinking. this is the worst fil ive ever seen. i dont reccommend this to anyone. do not watch this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
it was like reading a beautiful Poem.. Simply superb.. impressive. I am not a movie fan but this movie kept me glued to the seat…
One of the classy movies from gowtham’s stable.
Not the usual masala film, that our masses look forward to.
It should do well in Cities / Quasi-cities but i doubt if it would
rope in the rural segment.
A nicely crafted movie, which touches upon father-son relationship b’fully.
Surya has marvelled, simran has done her part well.
Sameera was splendid and so was divya.
Music was soothing and good job done by Harris, as he does always.
Kudos to the team
For those who are not interested in class, this is not the movie to watch.
this is a wonderful film with some boring moments in the 2nd half…apart from that this depicts life and thats what needed…how many years will we see the same old bashing goons running around trees with heroines and all those stuff….its time we saw a change…the 1st half was excellent…i agree 2nd half was a bit boring when surya is shown taking drugs and his rehabiliation …i think gautham could have wrapped that in few minutes but the sameera reddy and surya’s train episode was excellent….
The movie was OK. Young Surya did a good job. It was nice to see Simran and her cute flaring nostrils once again.
This is the worst film ever to be made in the film industry. Only fools will rate this as a good movie. Surya is useless even for a single role. Both his roles in this films are vomitting. GOD save tamil cinema from this lunatics.