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YMC vs VTV

Yesterday, when Sundar asked me to come for VTV (vinnaithandi varuvaayaa) tamil version of YMC (ye maya chesave), I was a little apprehensive since I already saw YMC four times and might end up comparing each frame of it. But, I know that I cannot say NO to this invitation as there are lot things that are dragging me to experience this film again, be it the music, the performances, the technical brilliance, the picturization of the songs that I am crazy these days plus the different climax which people are claiming is different from YMC. All put together I ended up in the PVR at 9 pm show yesterday to watch the movie for the fifth time. Sundar for the third time.

As film set to take off, the first thing that strike me was the English subtitles for a regional film, a good idea to improve the market for regional films. It is the first time I am seeing Simbu on big screen and I hardly seen any of his previous films earlier. But, whatever I had heard about him, they say that he has the torturous acting skills that anyone can dare to possess and there comes Trisha and the first impression is not great as I have already seen YMC four times and Samantha is one main reason for watching it so many times or may be the baggage Trisha has will not give you that impression. The first two songs of the films 'Hossana' and 'Omana pennae' are shot beautifully in different locations from what you see in YMC. The film has the same shot making in most of the scenes, though there are couple of scenes which I observed was great taking wise in YMC, one is the scene where Jessie proposes Karthik for the first time right after the marriage broke up(watch for camera work here in YMC) and another scene where Jessie asks Karthik to leave telling its all over. These two scenes are captured brilliantly in YMC and great example in terms of shot making and the actors performed brilliantly. Having said that, I must confess that in some of the scenes in the first half the VTV pair showed their experience and excelled with great ease. It's unfair to compare the acting and the pair between both the versions as both the pairs has dominated each other in some scenes. The bottom line is that both pairs did fantastic job and this Karthik and Jessie characters will remain among the best in their careers. Though, I personally love to see Chaitanya and Samantha than VTV pair as the young pair is lovely to watch on screen and Samantha here will score all the marks with her grace.

The only thing at the end that sets apart between both the films is the climax. Director Gautam really showed his cinematic brilliance at the end of the film when the couple who will give you an impression that they are together and got married are actually going to set apart and is not known till the final scene and ends with Mannippaya lyrics with beautiful Shreya ghoshal voice which perfectly suited the moment. It took some time for me to digest and understand what he has done in the VTV climax as the happy ending in YMC got sink ed into me. When thought of it as a film, I must confess that VTV has a realistic ending that stays with you.

When I go through my memory lane to check when was the last time I came to the theatre to see a film 5 times and I can recollect only one film Shiva which got released in 1989. I was a small kid at that time and I still remember going to theatre more than 20 times to see that film. I must be 7 yrs old when Shiva got released and when I think of it now and question myself what made me to see Shiva so many times at that age when one hardly know anything about films, it leaves me answer-less and the only reason why I must have seen it so many times is because I wanted to cherish the experience of that film again and again and again..and the same thing happening with YMC/VTV now. The language might be different, but the feel remains the same. It's really MAGICAL.

Ye Maya Chesave

If you are a Telugu cinema fan, how many times you would have come out of the theater commenting that this scene is good, this song is bad etc., and most of the times these days when we are seeing all kind of crap so called formula based films with no basics, wherein me as a normal movie goer felt many times that where is the Industry heading towards. If these are the kind of movies that we will be seeing frequently, then I seriously think that we need to grow up and say that I didn't liked it. But, we are programmed by many of the film makers so much that if someone does something correct, we say its not good just because its not like a certain type of cinema that they are expecting it to be. The correct here in my opinion has to be the proper story line with good technical values. The pity is that we are programmed exactly the opposite.

Ye Maya Chesave did not do any maya (magic) in terms of it story and screenplay. But, the magic is created by the director by just following the basics and following his heart but nothing else. The technical values are top notch and is on par with any other film you would have seen in this genre in India in the last five years (may be more than that). It has the shades of Maniratham kinda film making sometimes, but I'm not complanining on this factor as it is always good to copy a creator than a disciple. The colors the you see in the film are so good that it is a feast to your eyes. The lead pair (chaitanya and samantha) displayed amazing chemistry on screen . This film don't have dialogues rather have conversations that anyone who is in love would have gone through or felt atleast once in their relationship. The film is complimented with amazing A R Rahman music and BG score which just takes the film to another level of its own. It's a feel that no one should miss and must be enjoyed by every movie goer. It's the cutest love story that I have seen for some time now and for all those who are not in love will feel like falling in it once the movie is over. Don't miss it.

CINEMA

Consciously or Unconsciously films hold a special place in my life. I don't remember why and when I have started developing interest in this and I am not interested to retrospect so much on something which I eagerly wanted to achieve. As someone said, human beings picks up those things from childhood which are more near to their sensibilities (can be anything) and develop that believing that as if they own them without giving prior notice to their brain consciously. I think my interest towards cinema is natural to me since I never consciously developed interest but now this is something where I want to see myself my vision on the big magic screen..

My early memories goes to 6th Standard when I portrayed Hindu Priest character in my school anniversary function. Look at the photo of mine receiving an award for my performance; the person who is giving award is my Dad who was invited as one of the guest. I still remember the day when I had got on the stage and saw some hundreds of people waiting to see the show. I said myself WOW and believe me it's a fantastic scary feeling. I some how pulled it off quite nicely without noticing who is watching me and when I completed many people told me I performed well. I wish somebody could have had the recorded my performance, unfortunately no one did and I don't have a chance to see it again for myself to see exactly what I did so good that made the audience appreciate me so much.This is the last performance that I gave on stage...

As a wannable film maker, am still understanding the nuances of the what it takes to reach there which I know is the toughest path. All the works I had done (the two videos)and scripts that I am working on are the baby steps to reach my goal..

Will soon write a piece on the two videos that I had created what I thought of achieving and how it turned out...