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iView Author: R. Gayathridevi (Chennai, India)

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Being a die hard movie buff has its own set of highs and lows. I went thru all of it watching Gautham Vasudev Menon’s much hyped Vaaranam Aayiram on Sunday the 16th of November at Kasi Theatre. This is the first time I am catching a movie so early after its release – in this case barely two days after. My joy of possessing the last two tickets for the Sunday show can be properly empathized with only if you are as mad as me about movies. For the second ticket I had my husband for company. That noble soul has bravely faced thru all my Surya madness – how I would swoon every time the movie trailer was on TV and …

Vaaranam Aayiram Movie Review

There is a sequence in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s mostly autobiographical Vaaranam Aayiram, where Krishnan(Suriya) goes to meet his son, Surya(Suriya) in the engineering college hostel. The son looks up to the father, ‘my dad, my hero’ are the almost recurring emotions through the film. In this particular scene, Krishnan comforts his son, pats him on the back, gives him some money, and walks off saying, “we are both grown-ups now, son”. And Surya can’t hold his tears as the daily rush of hostel life surrounds him in the face…

One of the many poignant sequences in the film which underlines the joie de vivre or ‘life goes on’ theme emotion that Gautham has chosen to structure this film around.

Vaaranam Aayiram, one of the most anticipated films this year, for more reasons than one (big …