When Sameera Reddy tells Surya she’s in love with him, the dialog and scene had as much emotional intensity and feeling as a routine pass the ketchup request at the dinner table. Especially the scene where she blabbers in half baked English on father Surya’s death bed is straight out of a normal middle class mother.Īs long as she’s not required to say anything or move a step, that baby elephant Sameera Reddy is alright. I reckon Udhayan’s six bags wouldn’t have made any difference to the story line. Oh!!! This reminds me of Surya’s six packs. For those of you who wonder how Surya could be so slim don’t forget Jyothika now officially listed in the endangered species (read Mammoth) sits near him in the Dining table. Might be due to budget constraints they stuck with Surya. But even here they could have used Master Mahendran. Surya the son fares much better especially as the school going teenager.
Why is it in Tamil movies, the grandfather, father and the son must have the same face i.e same actor? Why didn’t Gautam use Sarath Kumar for this as his resume is filled with such roles? Where is Goundamani when you need him the most? These are just some of the questions that the losers who saw their $20 go down the drain wanted to ask. For instance, when he calls Simran as Darling or the Drug rehab scene. Surya the father is so-so except in some scenes where he completely fails to deliver the goods. (We hear everyone adding Major to each of their sentences as otherwise we might think he is just an actor on steroids.) The news is quickly conveyed to the son “Major” Surya, who’s in an helicopter on a rescue mission.
#Vaaranam aayiram dialogues movie
Vaaranam Aayiram begins with a very sick Krishnan (the father Surya) wheezing and panting laboriously and quickly kicking the bucket but not before vomiting the obligatory pint of blood (Menon, you think Tamil movie fans are such retards that they won’t be convinced someone’s really sick unless they see him puke blood on the bathroom floor?). And who do you think takes credit (should actually be discredit) for writing & directing this garbage – Gautam ‘inept’ Menon.
Surya’s acting is so-so, the dialogs inanely banal, the songs soporifically dull and the dances, oh, they are straight from hell. Oh wait, lest he open himself to charges of stealing Forrest Gump outright, Menon’s thrown some new ingredients into the chamber-plot like bringing in the father angle and the so-called bond between father and son. The movie works overtime to reinforce all the clichés associated with a Tamil movie.īoy meets girl. All the above references of usage of English are typically used in movies starring either Kurt Russell or Samantha fox in the 80s.Ĭoming back to the movie, VA is just another airbrushed Thavamai Thavamirundhu with lipstick and gloss to appeal to the supposed multiplex audience. Gautam is obviously influenced by too many second rate Hollywood flicks and cheap chick lit American novels. Somebody tell this moron that random characters mouthing off wannabe English dialogues in a Tamil movie does not make him a decent director. Which Tamil dad, that too struggling to make ends o meet calls his teenage son as “Kiddo” and “Sonno”. Now, Gautam menon has exceeded himself with father Surya calling the son Surya as “Kiddo”.I couldn’t stifle my laughter when I heard that. In Vettayaadu Vilayaadu it was Raghavan’s instinct. Evidently you go to the requisite authorities, stand in a separate line for lovers and put in your application after which the official tests you whether you are actually a sincere lover or just another of those innumerable engineering boys who were rejected by the only decent looking girl in the entire college.Įver since I saw a bunch of cops mouthing “Freezeeee…” to a bunch of local rowdies in Kakha Kakha, Gautham Menon became one of my least liked directors(to put it mildly).Then came Pacchaikilli muthucharam where a middle aged housewife from Tambaram(Andrea) tells her husband “Come and make love to me”. Varanam Ayiram tells us the exact administrative process behind this fast track to the US. According to the big Kollywood release of the week “ Varnam Aaiyiram”, you could get your Visa with no hassles. To all you desi professionals who are dying to go to the US of A for years on end and more importantly those who are contemplating going through the Visa process, I bear happy tidings.
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