VTV (tamil show)

Before i start, yes i have realized my reviews lately have been on language films. so for the record i did watch Valentine’s day last week but have not got around to jotting it down just yet. This movie, seriously need a mention, for the reasons you can read below.

Before anything, Simbu (Silambarasan) I have to say, congratulations your acting skills have improved and you looked very much better here. Trisha you look absolutely gorgeous with or without all that make up piled on. You look exactly like you did at “something Something unnakum ennakum” and some other movies. Gautham Vasudev Menon, hats of for another wonderful story line, And the cameramen which i have forgotten the name, brilliant job done.

Now, creating waves with a good looking cops in more than a movie, moving on to a heart warming dad and son relationship, it was about time Gautham Menon directed a story based on love right? Or people would have told him he’s mad staying in the Tamil industry. Well so he did, and he took his usual 2 years to finish it, went around the world to shoot it as well as promote it, created so much hype for it and he either misplaced the original storyline and photocopied the same script to many times. Dude, seriously!

The story basically (stop reading here if you have not watched it) The hero Karthik (named Young Superstar from the previous little super star)from a Hindu family gets ‘hit by love’ the moment he sees Jessi, the Malayalee-Christian girl who is his house owners daughter. They both hail from the stereotype, 4 some family (dad,mum,bro,sis). He is aspiring to be a film director and she is a program analyst who is a year elder than him. So he goes around to telling her he loves her. So typically she goes off to Kerala for some reason and he goes all the way there just to apologize (like people go all the way to America, whats Kerala right? {vaaranam Aayiram})So the rest of the movie unfolds wif him, constantly waving his hands around like a bird, hitting his chest, swearing, trying to turn it all English, And of course not forgetting our heroine changing her mind about the whole thing every half an hour. sheesh woman, do you have to be SO confusing, its just YES or NO damn it! Gautham must have been jus as confused as her you and I.

Ok now that we are done with the story, can i please babble about everything else. The clowns who are acting in the movie, of this movie, cannot act for nuts, and apparently they are the hero and heroine for the telugu version of the movie, i cant imagine how it’ll be :s . Ganesh who acts as Simbhu’s friend is like the comedian and he’s very good, though i’m not sure if i’ve seen him elsewhere before.

Ok simbhu, though you have improved, must you really just memorize the lines and spit them out, its not an exam! And Trisha you have really done a brilliant job, again. But you should avoid piling up all that makeup, cause in some scenes it just looks way to thick and horrible. Chinmayi did a great job as the dubbing artist for Trisha, but then again, its like listening to Sameera Reddy.aiks! But you must give it to them, the entire movie just lays on the hands of these two people on screen. I mean there is literally no fighting, no i will save the day. No Vijay’s style of i dominate the movie and your just the side dish. Plus the intimate scenes between them are so well taken, that you can feel it and them.

Here you must credit manoj the cinematographer. Started of his career by assisting in various tamil movies, he moved on as cameramen for Eeram and Unnai pol Oruvan, my two all time favourite tamil shows. This guy did a great GREAT job at it, especially at bringing out the scenes on the songs. BUT Anthony who usually does perfect editing, kinda did a sloppy job at the second half.

The Songs, yes the Oscar winning composer has yet again done a splendid job, but what do the people of the movie do it? They kill it. Sigh. Is it gonna kill them if they lip sync to it properly? Look at Jayam ravi it doesn kill him. Ish. And it looks like steps from Vaaranam aayiram all over again. And the “anbil aavan” song made no sense at all. Seriously, it put me off to see those nice songs just killed off like tht. Oh btw if u listen really carefully, in some songs like far away you can hear silent violin and things, The beauty of rahman. Maybe he made the right choice by changing Harris jeyaraj but he still stuck on to his usual song writer Tamarai or something.
The sarees are hot stuff, yes. Nalini Sriram, good job. But more effort could have been put into the western outfits, especially in one of the songs; it was hap-hazardly done.

Don’t take me wrong as critizing everything, because i do know how hard it is to get one of these movies up and running, but for such a big budget film with so much of hype and all the top people in the industry involved, one would expect them to take note of all these minor and minute details to make the movie a whole lot better than it already is.

My conclusion: the show is just not fast moving. Its just like a big fat never ending ‘arasi’ serial. Very the repetatitve. But the first half is awesome, due credit to the lead pair but theres no high point climax.. I would say its a can watch once. For further viewings, i would just wait for it to come on ‘Tangathirai’ in a few months. A lovely first half is spoilt by the boring second half.

So till his next movie Chennaiyil Oru Malaikalam, with half this crew moving on there, i really hope it turns out a lot better.

(this is the longest language review i have ever written...man! u still awake? :P )