Neethane En Ponvasantham online Tamil Movie Review

Produced by Photon Kathaas and RS Infotainment, directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon, Neethane En Ponvasantham is a love story (or as the director cleverly puts it across – moments from Varun-Nithya’s love story). With excellent acting, fantastic music, pleasing-on-the-eye cinematography, Neethane En Ponvasantham is a great case study of sum being lesser than the parts. The film starts off when Varun joins college and he meets Nithya in the college culturals. They share a history of love-hate relationship. First, they meet when they were kids and then when they were in school. Sparks fly when they meet duing college and they are together for the next four years. The film tries to capture some interesting moments in their lives. Unfortunately, only some of the moments are engaging.

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Gautham menon to start Yogan Adhayam Ondru

Gautham Vasudev Menon has not dropped ‘Yohan Adhyayam Ondru’ as the industry buzz seemed to suggest, but the movie will start with a new hero.

After Vijay walked out of the project, Gautham, zeroed in on Mahesh Babu who plays the protagonist. This will be a trilingual- Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.

“The shooting of Yohan Adhyayam Ondru will start soon. It will be a stylish action entertainer,” says Gautham, whose ‘Neethane En Ponvasantham’ will be released soon.

Gautham will also start on another project, with Suriya in the lead. “The story is set in the backdrop of 1920s,” says Gautham.

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Ekk Deewana Tha review

Cast: Prateik Babbar, Amy Jackson, Sachin Khedekar

Directed by Gautham Menon

Rating: Minus Ek

Pain and pleasure have the same facial expression. This is why you will share the same face with the lead cast of ‘Ekk Deewana Tha’ through the entire runtime. Love stories that curdle, portray societal and familial tribulations. But here, there is a far graver issue beyond the usual jaat-paat, rich-poor etc: The lead duo can’t act to save Tibet. And as dismissive as it may sound in the first paragraph of this review, it is in fact the iceberg that makes this painful love story crash as we endure the burn.

The film is about an aspiring filmmaker and unemployed dreamer Sachin (Prateik Babbar) who gets knocked out of his world when he bumps into a celestial Mallu-Catholic girl Jessie (Amy Jackson). Following a bit of cutesy stalking, he proposes. She rejects on account of avoiding inter-caste hassles and for their age difference (she’s a year older). He refuses to give up and takes stalking to epic heights by landing up in Kerala, her native place. A lot of dancing, a few digs at Kerala-ites and some storming punches later, we’re left with lot of broken noses and few tattered nerves. By now, you get restless for Amy to give in or at least take a firm stand on anything so that we can get on with our lives. But Amy won’t give up before playing runaway bride, leading him on yet not consenting and making it suffocating for Sachin, the audience and everybody involved. But this is just half the agony for we have the second part to go. After you have braved 70% of the movie, Amy finally accepts and admits to Sachin’s lure only to call it off minutes later over something as trivial as Sachin ignoring a couple of her phone calls. And while love can be a painful feeling, this amateurish attempt at heartbreak can be only worse.

Prateik and Amy are equally challenged in their speech and overall ability to portray joy, suffering, betrayal and most other suitable feelings. So often, an intense dialogue muttered with certain amount of lisp and an air of lazy indifference only reduces cinema to a reality show featuring extras. And while low expectations usually ensure one isn’t disappointed, this one puts you down even when you’re betting on nothing.

Mr Bharat Bhagya Vidhata, A R Rahman is yet another party pooper who seems to have stopped reinventing and his work here sounds like a remixed version of his earlier tunes with heavier bass notes. ‘Hosanna’ may be an instant hit but the bizarre hip-hopping that the video features as the song breaks in abruptly in the movie makes it difficult to enjoy the composition.

After remaking Gautham Menon’s Tamil blockbuster ‘Kakha Kakha’ in Hindi as ‘Force’ last year, Fox Star Studios decided to let him re-jig his own ‘Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa’ as this insufferable cinematic blot. Reinstating my stand on remakes, they cannot avoid being compared to the original. And it’s a fail-fail case, since changing the plot means that you’ve lost the fans of the original and if you don’t, then you’re a mere photo-copier.

In a world where any shooting location is a prospective tourism plug, this one does very little for Kerala. For this, all fingers can be confidently pointed at the DOP and the cinematographer who make the lord’s native country seem a little less inviting than the last music video/ love song picturised there.

Through his struggle and strive to win his lady love, Sachin keeps ranting one line, “Duniya mein itni ladkiyan hain par mujhe Jessie se hi pyaar kyun hua?” Perhaps, because Jessie Jaisi Koi Nahin? But the question you will find yourself pondering over through the film will be, “Multiplex mein itni movies hain, phir maine iss movie ka ticket hi kyun liya?”

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Nee thaane En Ponvasantham Trailer

Valentine Special:Neethane En Ponvasantham Trailer

Neethane en Ponvasantham is another romantic flick of famous Director Gautham Vasudev menon. This is the first time the director joins in combination with Isaignanei Ilayaraja.

The Teaser of the Film was released on Feb 14th as symbol of love and Romance.

The Movie has Jeeva and Samantha in it. and is Expected to be an April release.

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Film Review: Nadunisi Naaygal - By Aadithya

Director:   Gautham Menon

Producer:   Gautham Menon,  Jayaraman,  Madan

Cast : Sameera Reddy, Veera, Samantha, Deva

Story: Veera was actually christened Samar, the only son of the proverbial rich man in Mumbai, living a life of decadence, filled with wine and women. The young Samar is pretty much exposed wholesale to this debauchery, and you feel the sorrow and anger that goes with the deep-seated trauma of an incident like this. 

Someone else in the film feels it too: his next door neighbour, Meenakshi (Swapna Abraham), a woman who lives alone and is suitably horrified by the happenings. With her intervention, the police march in, and in one swift stroke, the sex maniacs are disbanded, and Meenakshi decides that she'll be Samar's legal guardian. Her background, motivations and character are never explained; she's a Good Samaritan who conveniently happens to be on hand. She also ignores, somehow, to get the abused child counseling -- whatever her reasons, we're led to assume that Samar escapes without any psychological trauma. 

In this dark, brooding tale, filled with macabre dashes of humour and bloodshed, Sameera Reddy certainly comes out on top. As the enthusiastic lover, and later, the terrified victim, she's had plenty of opportunity to display acting talent (even if she does spend most of the film crying).

 Review : If you don't like the film NADUNISI NAAYGAL, then it may be considered as a success from the film-maker's point of view... as tht is wat is expected from the director's point of view... Its the most disturbing film in tamil film industry so far... Technically... the movie is very sound... the absence of the BGM is hardly felt... kudos to the film-maker for this... The content of the film is basically very raw and new for the audience, which is accustomed to feel-good, breezy entertainers or mass-masala flicks... and this is a drawback for the film... However, the motto of the film is very noble and requires some serious attention. Editing of the film is sharp, and cinematography exposes the raw content in a very brutal manner... I'm not great enough to judge the film technically yet... And week hearts please don watch. So, i shall refrain myself from commenting further on the film, and leave the viewer to decide its success. Watch it only in Cinemas!!! Stop piracy !!!

Bottom Line : A different thriller, week hearts please don watch it.


Verdict: *** and a half * of 5
Review Courtesy : Aadithya

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