To say that it came as a breath of fresh air in our college lives would be a lie to say the least. The freshest of airs were provided much earlier by the on screen campus lives of a group of friends in 'Happy Days'. What 'Vaaranam Aayiram' brought to us non-level headed souls was the dream.
Watching the actor Surya live out three awesome, completely different love stories in a span of under three hours was the most enthralling experience of our lifetime. It still is for me. The way the whole movie was crafted by GVM, the controlled acting by Surya, the music by Harris, each and every frame and note in that movie inspires a feeling in your heart.
And it is those high points in this movie that we are going to look at, for this week's post. It might be the effect of having just finished watching the movie, but this post on THAT movie was long overdue. Let's not make it wait any longer.
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1. At first sight
Whenever a guy hears this movie being mentioned, he'll first remember this scene.
As Surya takes his seat on the train, he takes a casual glance across and sees Meghna for the first time. What follows is a frame by frame representation of what goes on in most guy's heads. Instead of reading me describing that scene to you, you should be spending your hoarded MBs of internet data on that 11 minute video. It's that good.
P.S. One of the best bits in that scene is when the Ticket Inspector asks from Surya, his ticket and the ensuing 10 seconds of expressions. We've all been there.
P.P.S. In case you think that the behaviour of the character is stretched for effect, I would like to tell you that I know someone who would behave in the exact same way (including the air guitar part). I'm looking at Mr.ShivJ. :P
2. The songs
Talking of Mr.ShivJ, I think he was the one who started the trend of having the songs from the movie as the hellotune. There are eight songs in this movie, each brilliant in its own sense. But three songs caught the imagination of the youth - Nenjukkul Peidhidum, Mundhinam and Ava Enna. Of the three, I have lost count of the number of phones I've heard ringing to the tune of Nenjukkul Peidhidum. In case you were wondering, yours truly had Mundhinam as his ringtone for a long time.
3. Three types of love
In the movie, GVM depicts three different types of love.
The Krishna-Malini love is the purest form there is. Falling in love at first sight, and then living together happily for many years.
The Surya-Meghan love is the perfect love, expect that it doesn't have a happy ending. No matter how hard the two souls try to make it work, something or the other crops up to quash it out. If it was a terrorist attack in the movie, it's arranged marriages in real life. ;) :D
The love between Surya and Priya is what you can call real love. One friend of mine put it elegantly as, "Even if you don't get to live with the person you loved, live with the person who loves you."
4. Six pack
I guess this was the movie which brought the six pack phenomenon. Surya worked hard and showed off his six pack in the movie. And it became a trend through out the nation, with other leading stars putting in the effort for the same.
5. This song
Did you really think that I would do a post on this movie without giving due space for this song?? It will always be one of the most romantic songs.
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This must have been the fifth time that I watched this movie, but it still sets bells ringing. I don't have words to describe this feeling. You need to watch this movie to get that. So I suggest you get yourself an original DVD of the movie (with english sub titles, if required) and watch it.
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That's it for this week. Next week marks the 52nd part in this weekly series. That's one whole year that we've dragged this through. I hope that I get enought time to do the special thing that I've planned on doing. And I hope I haven't jinxed it by saying that.
You all have a great weekend.
'til next week.
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