Vaaranam aayiram is tool old now to talk or critique about…but I want to put out the small thing which surprises n confuses me..
Mundhinam parthane is such a melodious song, one of the best in that year. From the movie’s point of view, it was the best form of narrating the flashback in 4-5 mins without boring the audience, at least in the tamil movies I have seen. Songs have been used to move forward the story in a lot of movies.. no one will forget the song in annamalai movie.. Using a song to show the flashback was not just new but succinctly and quickly to portray the past in a capturing manner.. So this is all awesome..but it confuses how such a brilliant director chose to show the kidnapping sequence and additional songs in the movie.. The kidnapping sequence was a time waste IMO to convince the audience to justify hero’s move to army.. It’d have been great at least if the director showed novelty in the fight sequences..Or he could have cut down on the fight sequence and rather showed a little bit more about the 70s/80s lifestyle considering how well the aesthetics and cinematography was handled for the mundhinam parthane song.. I do want to conclude that Gautham Menon is one of the best directors currently in industry willing to experiment as well as create movies which young people are attracted to.. looking forward to more brilliant tamil movies from him
