Will you cross the skies for me?

I finally broke my unlucky stint with widely anticipated movies. After a patient, but very eager and a hugely talked about wait - for ex: "waiting for feb 14 status" on fb! :P For the first time, I made alllll the effort against alllll the odds (some were real big to just dismiss as normal odds, the people concerned would know :P ) to watch a hugely publicized movie on the first day! Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya! I know how much I wanted to watch it and how eagerly I was waiting for it, colleting every single bit of information/gossip/interview/trailer that came along. AND – What an experience it turned out to be! I run out of words at such moments. Wowww is all I can say! Life’s sometimes very beautiful.

First of all, all you love skeptics out there, please do not watch this movie, this is a very very elegant celebration of love and being skeptical takes away everything from the movie. If u can say there is anything close to a solid storyline in the movie – it is only that of a boy falling head over heels in love with a girl, and ermmm yes, sort of vice versa in a way too! What makes it an adorable one despite that is the fact that it is intelligently shot, with very little of zero probability events that never happen. Ofcourse, there are exceptions to this in the movie, but on the whole, it left me with such an impeccable feel good mood that I thought Gautam Menon has got it right, bang on! He is really the hero in the movie, in every sense of the word. His wit sparkles all through, though you could sense a lot of threads from vaaranam aayiram, minnale etc., That still doesn’t take away much from the creditworthiness of the movie. Yes, it might be a clichéd younger boy loving elder girl story, yes some scenes strikingly remind you of scenes from earlier films, but it still is truly wonderful for the simple reason that everything that you see, hear and feel is beautiful – that is the word that describes the movie best. Right from Trisha, the music, the absolutely stunning visuals, the manoj paramahamsa’s camera with white being the theme, the dialogues, and most importantly the dubbing voice of trisha- chinmayi – every single thing is sheer beauty.

Then the music – this was the first movie for which I knew all the songs and the lyrics by heart before the release so well that I could sing along every one of those lines completely in the theatre. The music was absolutely mind-blowing, just fitting enough for an ARR. I was very curious about how it would be picturised and all. But somehow, the one that I liked most was the way Anbil Avan was picturised – call it peppy, say its because of chinmayi’s voice, the importance of that moment in the movie, the suuuuperb chemistry between the lead pair – as a package, it’s the best!

Then Silambarasan, what a revelation! Guess the character name karthik and romance go ver well together! (Remember Alaipayuthey?). There is one thing I really wanna say here. Today romantic hero automatically translates into chocolate boys and those typical lover boy faces. VTV was a welcome change as this movie finally showed the manliness of a die-hard romantic, a rare thing to find these days, nevertheless, something I find extremely attractive. Sigghhh! :P Yes, a guy would utter expletives at some point of time, and yes, he would say things that normally chocolate boys don't tell on screen. I think that’s how guys are wired to react, so those chocolatey boys either don’t exist, or maybe whoever is close to that image are extreme flirts, the kind you wouldn’t wanna trust! So, for the record, yes the same simbu who declared “ enakku cut sonna nadika theriyadhunga, apdi dhan enga appa solli kuduthirkaru” has a different dimension, if not an entirely different persona as I expected and that’s where he scores. <3 <3

Trisha. I seriously run out of words, I would rate it her best, if at all the rest of her movies would qualify to even compete! I have always been a huge fan of women of substance and I strongly think those oh-so-sexy and drop-dead-gorgeous but totally dumbass ladies you get to watch on screen don’t exist in the real world(Maybe I should meet the blondes?! It's popular belief, no?). So this was a refreshingly real avatar of the heroine. I loved her look in the movie, I guess everyone did. Then the ascendas Polaris connection, the roads, the inox and sangam theatres that kept coming - the detailing was wonderful too and added to the feel good factor!

What I liked about her was that the confusion in her, the fight within her, the passion of her soul, the confusion that her better sense gave her and her double-mindedness, all that was so real.Every girl at some point of time goes through all that, and yes, it takes a Gautam menon to say, girls live in a gray area with millions of shades between the black and the white. And that, is a very difficult area to survive on without sliding on to either side. Then comes the USP- Chinmayi’s voice, I go weak in my knees with this aspect in every single movie, be it a worst movie like asal for Sameera reddy or the idol-like Meghna of Vaaranam Aayiram @ UC Berkeley and here in VTV, oh my gawd! Her voice is something that bowls me over with an intelligent and witty dimension to it, every single time!

The locations and camera angles – (a relief, now that I missed the wayanad and goa class trip) – it had plenty of marvel on screen. It was outstanding, for want of a better word. That contributes maximum to the feel-goodness. Elegance comes through simplicity more often than not and somehow, we have learnt to embrace clutter and still search for elegance in it! It is very difficult to match the storyline with, rather tailor-make it for the locations and the visuals you wanna show on screen and I think Gautam is just excellent in that!

Then my company for today – aarthi, lalitha, keerthana and mathangi with me. Was loads of fun. Especially meeting my jackpot friend after sooo long and going out with aarthi n lalitha after that eventful Delhi Sangam outing! Looks like we are meant to go out only to Sangam theatres, be in RKP sec 9 or in kilpauk! :) And how can I forget that lovey dovey couple that defeated the on-screen chemistry, sitting next to me. Oh it was way too much for me to decently handle, both on and off screen! BP, japesh and Vishnu were there too, but they were quite far from us to even get involved in any of our discussions, well, consciously so in a sense!

And then the most important part – my precognition! I don’t really know why – but 30minutes into the film and I started telling people the climax. No,it wasn’t the least predictable, not one in the theatre except the craziest me would have thought, but I did – in the interval too I kept talking about it. Somehow I felt it and I even guessed dialogues that came out to be surprisingly correct. The climax finally was very close to what I predicted, but just in a different way though! Glad to be thinking on the lines of Gutam Menon :P But, how I wish I was wrong! Oh God! You would know what I am talking about, once you watch the movie! No more spoilers here!

There are also a number of scenes that stayed in my mind vividly – I wouldn’t describe them coz I have warned myself to be cautious of using too many spoilers in this post! Okie, let me record here one safe thing – it was the Pittsburg temple that invariably finds a place in every tamil movie shot in the US. Trisha in that beautiful brown saree in anbil avan song! Oh, at that moment I really really really, from the bottom of my heart wished I was there at Pittsburg! I might have to wait a month to know if that’s feasible, but if I do get to do it, I don’t know how many more births I would thank God for! Please come to my rescue Lord, God help me! In a way what triggered, rather gave momentum to this US higher education idea was, UC Berkeley in Vaaranam Aayiram! And now, this one! Fingers crossed!

So.. the last word.. This is hoping, this first day movie watching stint of mine continues, hopefully with such good movies and my precognition continues too! Greed, eh?! Then ofcourse, please, let me look back on this blog post with a smile, sitting in Pittsburg.

In short, every single person would have the strength of his will in being single tested with this Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya or it would make you sit up and count your blessings in love! And please, do not believe the reviews that say the screenplay is this way and the length is 23 seconds longer, the movie is slow, this half could have been better etc etc., We have been waiting for such a feel-good movie all along, put yourself on the romantic groove and go catch it! :)