Mannipaaya...

There's always a first time for everything.Today I underwent a few of such things including this post about a movie.Its none other than the recently-much-hyped vinnaithaandi varuvaaya, a.k.a vtv.I belong to the category of people who watch movies for the director.Considering the impressive track record of Gautham Menon,having high expectations cannot be avoided.Story is the narration kind where the protagonist* discloses his life story (that is mostly about his love-life).Yet again, the director's obsession with love @ first sight becomes obvious when the hero falls in love with a girl**(who's a malayali christian, yeah, this is a vital point considering the fact that he's a hindu). MP- aspiring film-maker, FP- program analyst in a well known company.The usual stuff happens (mp making fp fall for him, fp confessing to liking him but fearing family-opposition-so restraining, mp behind fp 24X7 trying to convince her that problems can be dealt with).Then comes the part where the fp's heights of indecisiveness made me think she's got an incurable physical/mental ailment.Alas, I was wrong when she was shown to be the one-who-doesn-know-what-he/she-wants-in-life kind (and weirdly liking the pain that she had to go thro because of that nature of hers!).Then the expected things happen and fp settles abroad(no, we don't know if she's married).Finally,with fp out of his life for a period of 3 years,the mp proceeds to become a director. He watches his first movie screening with fp. Hang on, here lies the unexpected twist, the director's touch, as some say.Okay,it took a while for me to digest the blatantly realistic climax, having got used to the either fairy-tale or tragic ending!Came out with a feeling of having wasted bucks.But, when friends started discussing, it made me think-okay may be there's a point in the movie that i failed to catch.
+s:(based on inputs from many people***)
of course,a.r.r's score rocked(with the intoxicating mannipaaya lingering in my ears for a long time),fp's looks and costumes(!),feel-good camera work,mp's totally new style of 'acting'(!). What i could see was the director's knack of refining actors...
-s: (ditto***)
mp's unnatural acting,redundant dialogues/scenes,climax (the whole of 'second half' as some put it)...
This is said to be a movie worth watching once.

~scrolling back and reading~

*mp - male protagonist, **fp- female
certain clarifications to be made - no, i'm not that unromantic person who cringes at love stories but its definitely not my cup of tea when compared to other areas like humour/thriller etc and it makes me restless when there's no clear-cut progress.yes,I've become too jobless to blog about this.I am a bad story-teller.The whole thing is a cluster of many people's opinions,so the probability that an individual disagrees is marginally high. :)