Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Vaaranam Aayiram "Aayiram Yaanagalai Soozhavandhan"


I just managed to sneak into the first day first show at the Fun Cinemas at Sigma Mall Bangalore to view the highly expected movie "Vaarnam Aayiram" meaning "1000 Elephants" in English starring Surya sivakumar in dual roles, Simran Bagga, Deepa Narendran, Divya Spandana, Sameera Reddy and directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon and music by Harris Jeyraj. The movie is produced by Aascar Films Pvt ltd V. Ravichandran.

The movie is all about Emotions, Love, Sacrifice and an Aim to achieve great things in life. Its a tribute to every father from his son. The movie revolves around Surya Sivakumar ( Surya) recalling the incidents that span during his life time and how his DADDY, played again by Surya ( Krishnan) motived him all during his life time. Gautham Menon has neatly crafted a superb movie that would please the mass audience ranging from youth to older generations.

Surya is a Air force combat officer working in the Indian Air force on a mission to rescue a kidnapped lady from terrorists in Kashmir. During his mission, he gets a call from the Base camp informing him that his Father has passed away. Now, the entire story unfolds and is neatly captured and framed on the celluloid screen. Surya recalls his father ( Krishnan), how he fell in love with her mother (Simran), how they got married and also about her sister too. Their parents were inspirational in surya life. He recalls his juvenile age, college life and his passion for playing music on his guitar. During his college days, he falls in love with a beautiful girl Meghna ( Sameera Reddy) and expresses his love to her. Meghna moves to the United States to pursue M.S in computer engineering and suriya travells to US to find her. Finally the love blooms and a couple of excellent songs are played including the super hit "Adiye Kolludhe". An unfortunate incident happens where Sameera Reddy gets killed in a Bomb blast during a seminar trip to Oklahama City. Suriya's life is shattered and he is unable to cope up with the tragedy. Later he comes back to Chennai. Here he get's addicted to drugs, Alcohal and smoking inorder to forget the pain of losing his lady love.

Krishan consoles him and motivates him to quit all these bad habits and inspires him to take challenges. Then he goes to Kashmir's pleasant valley and nature just to get reformed himself into a good man .Here he rescues Aditya ( Son of Shankar Menon) from the cluthes of notorious gangster Azad. He feels he has achieved some great thing in life.
Surya decides to join Indian army since he had a great passion to serve the Indian Army ever since childhood. He joins the Indian Military academy (IMA) and meets Childhood friend Divya Spandana who proposes her love to him. Both fall in love and soon get married.

Finally Surya ventures into a combat operation to save a kidnapped women from terrorists and on the way, he gets the sad news that his father is no more. The entire movie is all about surya recalling his childhood, youth life, adult hood and how is DADDY inspired him in each and every moment of his life.

Vaarnam aayiram is certainly not the typical expected cop, action movies like Khakha Khakha and Vetaiyadu Vilayadu. It's a movie from Gautham Menon which seems to be pretty close to his heart and would probably be inspired from his real life. He really needs to be applauded for this wonderful effort. This movie is a three long hour of sentimental drama, emotions, love, tragedy, fun, etc. Surya is simply superb in all scenes. His image in the cop role is mind blowing and he looks like a handsome army officer with the traditional army hair cut. The women folks would certainly love him for his masculine toned body which includes a 6 pack abs.Simran Steals the show with her acting skills. Sameera reddy and Divya Spandana are cute and have acted well. This is certainly the best movie from Gautham Menon. Hats off to Surya for the best performance of his life. He really deserves the appreciation for his dedication, sincerity and hardwork which has clearly reflected on the screen in terms of his body language and the multiple roles he has enacted in. The music work done by Harris Jeyaraj is brilliant.


This is a movie, that stands close to my heart. It will surely be a blockbuster movie. This is a movie which pays tribute from a person to his father. We feel sad that the successfull combination of Gautham Menon and Harris Jeyaraj have parted ways due to indifferences and one day we hope they would come back together to make another classic. Hope the best again for Gautham's next venture "Chennayil Oru Mazhaikalam".

Until then goodbye. Vaarnam Aaiyaram -"Ivan Aayiram(1000) yaanaigalai Soozhavandhan

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