We
all know love is a strange thing. It hurts if someone loses in love
and hurts badly. When love springs up from nowhere, grows and before
you realize you are in love everything just vanishes. When there is
no time to react and realize that it was there and now its all lost,
it is even more terrible.
I
am just trying to count movies that has love as its theme. Well, if I
do that I guess I should be counting all my life time. But movies
that shows the effect of losing in love, especially the one-sided
(where only the guy or the girl falls in love) ones, are not rare but
relatively less. Generally, if a movie is good, you like it. If it is
fantastic you adore it. When it is fantastic and has situations where
you
have been in, it becomes close to your heart. Mounam Pesiyadhey('The
silence speaks', give
a 2 on 10 for my translating abilities)
is one such movie, which is close to my heart.
Surya
finishes college and owns a restaurant. He is a tough guy and someone
who hates flirting. He does not hate love, but only gets irritated to
see that true love is hardly there in the society. He doesn't blush
when girls come to him to ask address; is a misfit in a group when
girls are around; he doesn't have a pillion seat in his bike; he
takes a swipe at a newly wed couple doing public nuisance on road.
Such guys will definitely have few admirers. When he was in college,
there was a girl who was always after him. But being a guy he is, he
refuses to accept her love.
Usually
in any friends group there will be one guy who always dominates.
Amongst his friends circle Surya is that bold, short-tempered
dominating guy. His best friend Nanda is someone who introduces to
himself to virtually every girl he meets on street. While he does
that for fun, he also sincerely loves a girl. Surya and Nanda grow up
like brothers. Trisha is Nanda's aunt's daughter. Their parents
decide to get them married. Because Nanda loves another girl, Surya
goes to Trisha to tell that the marriage is not going to happen.
Trisha says that even she is not interested in this marriage and when
she says, “If I marry someone, it would be someone like you” it
all turns topsy-turvey for Surya. When love begins to grow in him for
Trisha, he finds out that she did mean what she said. She loved
someone like
him and not him.
When
you have lived all your life as if love getting into you is a
miracle, you have to remember this: Miracles do happen
The
movie is brilliant because of 4 people: Ameer for his direction;
Yuvan shankar raja for his music; Surya for his acting and Nanda for
his humour-mixed cameo. The movie has its own pace and style. There
are small twists to keep us interested. Surya, straight out from a
movie like'Nanda' where he plays an assassin, does fantastic job.
His expressions as a short-tempered guy and during the sudden
transformation into someone in love is fantastic. Nanda as a timid
guy in front of his father and his mischievous looks in an innocent
face provides plenty to laugh your heart out.
Yuvan's
beats along with the lines'Kadhal seidhaal pavam .'(To love is
sin), pumps enough punch and aggressiveness into the blood to beat
the timidness caused by love. Another song'Aadadha aatamellam .'
is a classic number from Yuvan. There are couple of good melodious
songs as well. Yuvan brilliantly supplements the theme of the movie
with his music.
There
are loads of memorable scenes and dialogues. One scene where Nanda
wants Surya to help his friend in love is hilarious. They all go into
the marriage hall to bring the bride who loves this guy(for whom
Nanda seeks help). Surya ends up advising the girl and convinces her
to stay with her parents. The guy curses Surya that he too would fall
in love and feel the pain of love.
From
the movie's song: “Indha paaraikkul pani paindhadhey .”(Dew
gets inside this Rock .)
This
is of course a commercial movie with a touch of poetic theme. But the
characters in the movie are real, situations are real and it comes in
a package where just enough melodrama is mixed for these to be
visible in a movie.
If you are a guy, there are many chances that this movie may get
closer to your heart as well. Many of my friends feel the same way
seeing this movie. A favorite movie in our friends gang. But even if
it is not that admirable, it is at least a good one time watch.
For
most part in the movie there are indications like Trisha loves Surya.
In the end, there is a surprise twist that it was not Trisha, but
Laila that girl who loved Surya in college. They lived happily ever
after . of course, movies are movies. It can only be close to
reality, but reality is different. A lot different.
From
the movie's song: “Kangal ulla varai kaadhal azhivadhillai .
pengal ulla varai aangal jeyippadhilai”
(Till
the time there are eyes, love does not get destroyed;
Till
the time there are women, men do not win)
2/10
for my translating abilities; 5/5 for the movie.
Smiles,
Envyram
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