Had heard that this movie is loved by people in love and others find it too boring. I loved this movie (implies what :) – nothing). Any form of good Art is like magic – it is tough to point out what ingredient makes it that beautiful – every individual thing has got to be right and in addition they should come together in the perfect form and this is what this movie has turned out to be. Gautam is definitely one of the best directors with his unique and beautiful style of movie-making. ARR’s songs are too beautiful adds to the poetic feel of the movie – the song ‘aaromale’ is out of the world, ‘mannipaaya’  conveys the emotional conflict of the entire movie, ‘Hosanna’ is love incarnate in music (Yen idhayam udaithai, norungavae!? En maru idhayam, tharuvaen nee udaikavae!…. Hosanah, En meethu anbu kolla Hosanah, Ennodu serndhu sella -ARR + Thamarai is too good a combination! ).The inconsistency in Jessie’s character and the cycles of confusion she experiences was very realistically portrayed – instead of prototyping it as the ‘uncomitted’ bad girl (in theatre some guy muttered “intha ponnungalay ipdi thaaan ejamaan (if you didn’t know, it is a line from the movie Sigappu Rojakkal)” ), the respect and admiration for the character only grows with the confusion and her eventual decision.

Trisha is poetically beautiful and delivers her all time best performance and the surprise is SIMBU! It’s difficult to believe it’s the same guy who was pelting out non sense dialogues and doing idiotic mannerisms – He has fully matured and comes out with a well controlled performance. His acting in the climax scene in park is just awesome!

The dialogues brim with honesty especially the Karthik’s where Jessie suggests they be just friends :) . The physical aspect in love was honestly, yet aesthetically captured (the train scene, the kisses). The ending is light and subtle and not an emotional upheaval expected out of such a story. Though it’s too early and I have seen this only once, I feel it is a ‘classic’ about love. And I am waiting to watch it once more!

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