Neethaane En Ponvasantham Review and Rating

Cast 

Jeeva as Varun Krishnan

Samantha as Nithya Vasudevan

Santhanam as Prakash

Ravi Raghavendra

Anupama Kumar

  

Crew 

Director - Gautham Menon

Producers - Reshma Ghatala, Venkat Somasundaram, Elred Kumar, Jayaram

Gautham Menon

Writers - Reshma Ghatala, Gautham Menon

Screenplay - Reshma Ghatala, Gautham Menon

Story by - Reshma Ghatala

Music -    Ilaiyaraaja

Cinematography - MS Prabhu, Om Prakash

Editor – Anthony

Studio - Photon Kathaas, RS Infotainment

Budget - 10 crore

  

Neethaane En Ponvasantham is a musical romantic drama which unites the romance specialist Gautham Vasudev Menon and Ilayaraja together. MS Prabhu, Om Prakash have handled the cinematography, Anthony has done the edit work and RS Infotainment has produced the flick.

  

Plot :

  

Varun (played by Jeeva) and Nithya Vasudevan (played by Samatha) are childhood friends, who have interest for each other right from childhood.

They both part ways for petty quarrels during their childhood and happen to meet each other once again in a tuition center while studying 10th standard. There comes issues between them once again, but this time out of possessiveness which indicated they are grown ups.

  

Fate works 24/7 to reunite them once again, and this time their reunion happens in a college cultural hosted by Varun's college. Nithya and Varun get in touch with each other and eventually find their lost love and get closer.

  

The story rolls over to a different state when Jeeva is struck by a brain wave seeing the financial situation of his family. Jeeva, who leads a carefree life until then, decides to go for higher studies (M.B.A in IIM) and indulges in it whole-heartedly.

  

Nithya, who is born rich, doesn't have much committed work to do and hence becomes too dependent on Varun. At a certain point Nithya feels that Varun is drifting away from her and decides to sort out the issue which breaks out into a big fight. The couple part ways here and the next, for us, is the second half loaded with twists which gives an end to the tale.

  

Review :  

Neethaane En Ponvasantham is yet another practical love story from Gautham Menon presented in his very own style with the magical touch of Isaignani Ilayaraja's music.

  

Coming to the acting, the lead pair Jeeva and Samantha stand out with their realistic performance. Be it emotion, romance, anger or possessiveness, both the actors have neither underplayed it nor overdone it, rather have delivered it subtly.

  

Gautham Vasudev Menon needs special applause for his twist in the screenplay where Varun shifts focus to his family from Nithya. This twist which turns the tale upside down, has a weight logic behind and is unarguably practical.

  

Gautham Menon has used Santhanam as more than a mere stress buster. Though he makes us laugh with every single bit of his appearance in the first half, Santhanam behaves like a matured supportive friend of Jeeva, but doesn't miss on his humor.

  

The songs, except a few, which sounded better for us while hearing the album alone have not got the extra boost along with the picturization. Otherwise, the sound tracks have proven useful for the director to rush through certain portions of the film.

  

The maestro has done a great job with his orchestration, but the generation gap makes the audience feel it as a bit old-fashioned at times.

  

Gautham Menon has repeated a few things which we've seen in his films regularly like the hero setting off in search of heroine, naming of the characters etc. The end should have been made more crisp.

Verdict : Yet another practical love story which lags a bit in the ending

  

Rating  :  3 / 5

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