His eyes talk wen he comes on screen! more than the movie i loved SURYA! .. man his smile and eyes are truly magical.. :) .. as for the film.. it wasnt the vaaranum aayiram i expected.. although tremendous efforts have gone behind it ( which evidently shows) i found the movie aimless! if the one line story was "tribute to dad or ( daddy) '.. then sorry.. i found daddy less and love between the hero and the heroine more! the amount of daddy shown was as much as any other family movie wud show! and how bout mommy! even she was there for him every min!
His father sure was a keen observer of his kid's activities and kept him going on the right path..but wats the point after all that teaching and kid surya saying dad is my hero wen he couldn't confide with him wen he was in a dire need of affection and attention! Neither did he go to his dad and say see i am not able to get out of this nor did his dad observe that his son was doing drugs...he took his own decision of taking all that and more of wat his "hero" had told him not to! and wat I liked about the movie was his road fight in his school days… it was amateur… but that’s how fights at that age take place…it looked realistic.. not like the other fights in other commercial movies where the hero irrespective of whether they are thin or muscular, school kid or college lad or a grown up.. parundhu parundhu adipaan! As if bruce lee’s aavi had got into them! without any training they wud hit professionally! … So I just enjoyed that scene and his dialogue after that “thanks da adikarthuku! Na Amrita kude pesuven! Ava dha indha kayathuku kude marundhu poduva! ”.. LOL! And i also like the train scene... was quite romantic wen he strums his guitar and sings the song for her.. and i must say.. surya has a good voice! he could start singing for songs like simbu.. i am sure it wud sound good with all the modulation with the music console!
But wen u see the movie on the whole… each section of it, let it be his childhood or school days, or college life, or him going to U.S. just for his girl, drugs and finalllly his daddy’s death and army and divya, was nice… the songs and its choreography was amazing.. Most of the steps innovative and new.. But I felt that the dance was not at all required for the slow melodious song “nenjikul paidhidum” … it wud have been nice if it was just a montage of scenes of them together… but I loved the mundhinum song for the art direction and costumes… took me to the kadalika nerum illai era!
Sameera, Divya and Simran have done a justice to their characters... divya surprisingly has underplayed and supported the situations well... Simran was at her charming best.. she sis look like the heroines of the yester years with that mai kurvali and jerberas on her head! Sameera did a decent job too... not much of scope for the ladies.. but wat a performance by surya! he actually looked like the neruku ner surya during the school days scenes! wow! i never thought he could manage to look like that! and his efforts in the gym show! Surya is our answer for aamir khan and salman! wow! no prob in him showing off his six pack and arms in the movie! ;D!
I wish Gautham Vasudev Menon ( as he wud liked to be called so) had divided each of these sections into different movies…each of the scripts had the potential to get spun into beautiful movies… and wud have given us more of Surya’s movie treats!
