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Neethaane En Ponvasantham
Neethaane En Ponvasantham
Rating :
Hero :
Jiiva
Heroine :
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Other Cast :
Jiiva Samantha
Director :
Gautham Menon
Music Director :
Ilayaraja
Producer :
Reshma Ghatala Venkat Somasundaram Elred Kumar Jayaram
Release Date :
14-12-2012
When you present the typical boy meets girl story to an overtly saturated audience, engaging moments are the only stuff that can revive you from the ashes of repeated stereotypes and boring cliches and take you to the golden shore of blockbusters. But you have reasons enough to doubt whether Nee thaane en ponvasantham has done this balancing act for its sake.

With excellent acting, fantastic music, pleasing-on-the-eye cinematography, Neethane En Ponvasantham is a great case study of sum being lesser than the parts. The film starts off when Varun joins college and he meets Nithya in the college culturals. They share a history of love-hate relationship. First, they meet when they were kids and then when they were in school. Sparks fly when they meet duing college and they are together for the next four years. The film tries to capture some interesting moments in their lives. Unfortunately, only some of the moments are engaging.

Just like in the Tamil film Khushi, a key scene happens on the rooftop just before the interval – the roof top acts as a character here (Varun-Nithya have had some real intimate moments in this rooftop), but the scene is absolutely ineffective due to the mishandling by the director. (The scene from Khushi in comparison is Citizen Kane – more on this a bit later). To give credit to the film, there are a few moments which are engaging. Nithya teaching Varun how to pronounce Edinburgh, the initial school scenes, the climax scene in the same rooftop, the family scenes which changes Varun from a boy to a man, and the first few moments in the college culturals are really entertaining. Incidentally, these are the portions when Varun and Nithya do not fight!

And GVM has done the biggest disservice to Ilayaraja by having improper situations for at least 3 songs. Mudhal Murai, Kaatrai konjam and Ennodu act as speed breakers. The songs are picturised with love and care but due to the situations in which they occur, you really do not get involved. But the balance 4 songs – Saindhu Saindhu, Sattru Munbu, Vaanam Mella and Pengal Endral – are good. Sattru Munbu is rivetting in its picturisation in the climax, and the way Samantha emotes here clearly lifts the film to a different level. (Thengi pona Ore nadhiyena indru naanada – you can see it in her eyes – frankly I did not think she could act this well).

Ah!the rooftop !!!
The climax is very good on its own, but when compared to the rest of the film, it is outstanding. And what works here are the moments where no one talks – and this is where Raja scores. I should say that with all misappropriations and some good moments, this is one movie you have to check out for yourself.
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