1. A couple of reasons why I watched â€˜Before the Rains’ were Santosh Sivan, its director and Nandita Das, its lead character. While I am a huge fan of Santosh Sivan’s cinematography in almost all of the movies in which he collaborated with Mani Ratnam (Roja, Iruvar, Dil Se, Raavanan, need I say more), the fact that I had seen quite a few interviews of his and he came across as this amazingly imaginative person who knows how to get the maximum detail in each and every frame of his piqued my interest in him. Santosh Sivan is almost like an university of cinematography and the script that he picked up for this movie lent itself to be filmed extraordinarily beautifully.
    The second reason that I watched this movie was Nandita Das. With her unconventional looks, this powerhouse of a performer had managed to grab my attention with her awesome performances in Earth, Azhagi and Kannthil Muthamittal. In all of these roles, her eyes always seemed to convey a deep sense of sorrow, I don’t know if she was just playing her characters in these movies or whether her eyes do really betray some sorrow in them.
    In any case, to get back to the movie itself, it deals with Henry Moores (played competently by Linus Roache) a rubber plantation owner in Kerala (in 1930s Kerala) and his attempts to building a road connecting the prime part of his rubber plantations to the town from where the rubber would find its way to the markets. Henry is ably assisted by his driver, servant and man-Friday in general, TK (a part played wonderfully well by Rahul Bose, yet another powerhouse of an actor who is so grossly under-appreciated by all Indian movie lovers). TK endears himself to Henry due to the fact that he is ambitious, knows English and very wilfully acts as a conduit between the English owner and the Indian workers. In fact, Henry relies a lot on TK and his tact to achieve his ends. Both Henry and TK are working hard to ensure that the road linking the plantation is built ‘before the rains’ in Kerala which are notoriously torrential and will surely end up washing away any unfinished roads up in the hills.
    While the road is being built, Henry is also having a clandestine affair with his married maid Sajani (Nandita Das). Coincidentally, when Henry’s wife and son return from Oxford to Kerala, Sajani’s husband discovers her affair with Henry and physically abuses her. Sajani then seeks refuge with Henry who refuses to accept her into the household under the circumstances which leads to her killing herself with a gun. Her disappearance causes quite a furor in the town and what unfolds next forms the rest of the movie. I am not going to reveal the rest of the plot as I wouldn’t want to spoil it for anybody who is inspired to watch the movie after this review.
    Cameo appearances by Indrajith (as Sajani’s brother) and Lal (as Sajani’s husband) add a lot of value to the movie. The fact that these two are extremely competent actors in the Malayalam industry does not deter them from taking up small roles and delivering extremely competent performances in them. Maybe the fact that they were working in Santosh Sivan’s movie is what prompted them to take up these roles in the first place.
    From the perspective of cinematography, Santosh does a brilliant job with the visuals. Each and every frame of the movie manages to capture the natural beauty of the surroundings, and brings to life an entire forest on the movie screen. The fact that the rains keep playing hide and seek throughout the movie also adds a lot to the relevance of the title to this movie. Santosh Sivan has been quoted as saying that Raja Ravi Varma, the great painter king from Kerala inspired his use of lighting in all the indoor shots for this movie.
    In a nutshell, as I stated at the very beginning, I was so moved by this movie and the visuals that whenever I think of rains or monsoon, my memories immediately go back to this movie…
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    Wikipedia link to the movie – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Rains
    IMDB link to the movie – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870195/

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    These days Tamil cinema is in the middle of a silent revolution. While movies continue being made with big budgets, big stars (such as Singam 2, poised to release on 5th July), there is this entire other stream of movies being made with smaller budgets, smaller ‘stars’ which give much more weightage to crisp scripts, taut screenplays, and an overall appreciation to the different facets of film-making. Some recent examples of this new stream are Pizza, Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanam, Soothu Kavvum, Neram, etc, most of which have already become 2013’s so called ‘sleeper hits’. And trust me, as an avid movie-lover (even movies of the big budget, big stars kind), this entire silent revolution excites me a lot. All of the movies named here and others as well have been so good that I cannot stop ‘gushing’ about them and recommending them to all other movie lovers I know.

    Neram (classified as a ‘romantic comedy thriller’ film by Wikipedia [Link to article]) is one such movie which captured my attention first because of its hit song – Pistah being played on the Tamil music channels. Apart from the fact that the song went viral due to its catchy lyrics and beats, the fact that the video itself features off cuts from the movie itself piqued my interest in the movie. The catchy tags to the characters – the main villain, the tall villain, the short villain, the fair villain, the dark villain, etc, immediately made me go the web and read up a preview of the movie.

    The premise of the movie where the protagonist has just one more day to go before his deadline to return borrowed money expires, was something that immediately made me to put this movie on my ‘must-watch’ list. And believe me when I say this, that probably was one the best decisions that I have made in a long time.

    Neram, written, edited and directed by debutant Alphonse Putharen is one movie where people will be extremely hard pressed to find even one loose end. Everything in the movie, all the scenes, shots, situations, characters, dialogs, have a specific purpose to play and no knot remains loose at the end of the movie. As stated earlier, the premise of the movie is very simple, Vetri (played wonderfully well by Nivin Pauly, one of the up and coming Malayalam heroes) has borrowed money from Vatti Raja (portrayed extremely convincingly by Simhaa, a character artist whom I am seeing only for the second time on screen) for his sister’s wedding. Vetri has run out of time and has only till 5 PM in the evening to return the money with interest to Vatti Raja. What follows during this particular day forms the crux of the movie.
    The fact that the script borrows the premise for its thrills from the fact that the hero has a clock against which he is running, and this by itself has been made into numerous successful thriller films. What takes the cake in Neram is the fact that it uses the non-linear storytelling technique. While this also is nothing new to Tamil cinema and has been tried in various movies in the past, the fact that the director makes it work wonderfully well, especially in the climax sequence, is what makes Neram stand out from the crowd.

    All in all, watch this movie if you want to have an edge of the seat experience wondering what the hero will do and how he will manage to repay the money, if at all, for a crisp 117 minute running time experience.

    PS: Veteran actor Nasser makes his presence immensely felt in a wonderful little cameo performance at the fag end of the film. This character by itself can form the subject of a separate movie by itself.

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  3. I don't remember when I first heard of this movie, but for whatever reason it eluded me until Asianet finally decided to play it again (or was it the first time on TV?) on Sunday, Jan 6th. I guess the fact that this was one of the legendary Thilakan's last movies or this was one of Dulquer Salman's (Mammootty's son) first few movies played large in keeping the name 'Ustad Hotel' right on the top of my 'to watch list' of Malayalam movies. And I wasn't disappointed with the wait, the Dum Malabari Biriyani turned out to be well worth the wait for it.

    The movie itself is a sweet, no-frills, bittersweet romantic one. The script is relatively uncomplicated and the pace is quite nice, not too slow nor too fast given the genre of the movie. The story primarily deals with Faisi's (played by Dulquer) love for cooking, his fall out with his father who wants him to be a businessman and how this leads to Faisi discovering his grandfather (Karim ka played by Thilakan) and the eponymous 'Ustad Hotel' in Kozhikode.

    As the name suggests food is an overarching theme in this movie and the love for it pretty much forms the basis on which the story revolves around. Looking back though, I can't help but wonder if this movie had shed its entire commercial angle and focused more on the food, whether it would have seen the commercial success it did. If a gutsy filmmaker had taken this script and made it more about the grandson's and the grandfather's common love for good food and dared to make an entire movie with this subject, now that would've made this movie all the more interesting for me to watch.

    In any case, the movie as it is today manages to strike the right balance between the love for food and the other necessary commercial elements such as the token love story between Faisi and Shahana (played wonderfully well by Nithya Menen who remains enigmatically beautiful to me whenever I catch her on TV). Shahana’s character is also used by the director to portray an extremely forward-looking modern Muslim girl who is actually a lead singer of a Fusion Band in the movie. She comes across as an extremely self-confident, spunky leading lady who is quite clear on what she wants from her life and what needs to be done to grab her dreams.

    The movie in my opinion does take some unnecessary detours into Ustad Hotel trying to be acquired by an unscrupulous business tycoon who wants to expand his existing Five Star property on the beachfront, etc. But then, these script elements were necessary to keep the movie moving from a commercial angle I guess.

    To conclude, I would rate Ustad Hotel reasonably high and would recommend it, especially for people who love food, love their grandfathers (and the accompanying treasure trove of knowledge and wisdom nuggets) and also for people who like light hearted rom-com movies.
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  4. "Unknown" was just that, an unknown choice of a movie to watch on a Sunday afternoon. When the Missus, my cousin and me decided to sit down to watch some nice movie, the onus of choice of the movie was left to me. Browsing through my cousin's collection of movies, I happened to come across "Unknown". Not knowing anything else about the movie other than the fact that Liam Neeson starred in it, the three of us sat down to watch it.

     The movie begins with Dr Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) and his wife arriving at Berlin to attend a biotechnology summit where the Doctor is one of the researchers expected to present a significant breakthrough in his field of expertise. At the hotel, when he realizes that he inadvertently has forgotten his briefcase with his passports and other important papers at the airport itself, he hops into the nearest taxi and asks the driver Gina (Diane Kruger) to take him to the airport as soon as possible. On the way to the airport though, the taxi meets with an accident where the cab crashes into a river. Martin in knocked unconscious and wakes up in a hospital 2-3 days later.

     When he returns to the hotel, he discovers his wife with another man who is living the life of Dr Martin Harris. Enraged, confused by this sudden turn of events, Dr Harris starts off in quest of reclaiming his life, identity while trying to figure out what exactly is transpiring. That forms the gist of the movie. To say anything more would end up in revealing too much about the movie and that would prove to be quite a damp squib for anybody who has plans to watch the movie.

     Liam Neeson as Dr Harris plays his character to the hilt. His ability to emote portraying his anger, confusion, frustration speak volumes for his credentials as an actor who always goes the extra mile to bring to life the writers' characters (other notable roles of his include Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Ra's Al Ghul in Batman Begins, the protagonist in Taken, the list goes on). Diane Kruger (Helen of Troy in Troy, Abigail Chase in National Treasure) plays the role of Gina competently enough. As somebody who unwittingly gets caught up in a situation that she has no control over, her portrayal of the illegal immigrant taxi driver is quite good and adds to the plot.

     The movie itself follows the standard template of its genre of movies - the cloak and dagger thriller, but it does so with just that bit of flair, panache and individuality that makes it quite a good watch. The screenplay, the locations, the chase sequences, the casting, all of it has been done with eough care and attention to ensure that the audience is treated to a competent action-thriller movie. 

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  5. In a departure from normal protocol, Agent Ethan Hunt is not necessarily given a choice to accept the mission in this instalment of Mission Impossible. Hot on the trail of "Cobalt" (the mandatory code-name for a MI villain), things go horribly wrong and "Ghost Protocol" is activated which basically disowns Agent Hunt and the entire IMF, and to further complicate things, the IMF's secretary is also assassinated which basically leaves Agent Hunt and his team with practically no support of any kind.


    What Cobalt's plan is and how Hunt and his rag tag team of Jane Carter, Benji Dunn and intelligence analyst William Brandt try and thwart his plans make up for the rest of the movie. while the story pretty much moves on predictable lines, what makes this movie stand apart from the rest of other spy movies and makes it the best in the MI franchise is the sheer scale of this movie. 


    From blowing up a part of the Kremlin to the amazingly crazy unbelievable action sequence shot at the Burj Khalifa, Dubai, this movie has to be the grandest in terms of imagination for a spy-action genre. The fact that Tom Cruise manages to bring his A-game to the screen in terms of performance and the style with which he portrays Ethan Hunt is a huge bonus. He doesn't look a day older than Jeremy Renner (who plays William Brandt, and who is 9 yrs younger than Cruise is) and kudos to the efforts that the entire crew of this movie has put in to pull off some amazing stunts on screen.


    Simon Pegg as Benji brings his trademark style of British comedy on screen and portrays the role of the 'gadget guru' (once again a mandatory items of all movies of the MI franchise, and all spy-action movies in general). Paula Patton also is quite commendable and plays her role decently enough. 


    All said and done I liked this movie and liked it a lot. Having said that, WTF were the movie makers thinking bringing in the entire India angle to the story. Whoever did their research on India and whoever was in charge of designing the sets, props for this section completely messed it up. While I had read articles and seen leaked photographs of the India sets on the web, I didn't realize that a studio as big as Paramount and producers such as Tom Cruise and JJ Abrams would end up overlooking such shoddy work. I mean, if it was so hard and inconvenient for them to recreate India on a set, they might as well have shot that entire sequence in any other country where it would have been easier for them to shoot a movie. The fact that this portion seemed to have been added to pander to the Indian audiences is something that I find hard to believe given the fact that Indians anyways download movies for free and watch them.


    Another question I have in this regard - What was decided first? The casting of Anil Kapoor which forced the makers to select India as one of the locations for the action to take place, or the choice of India which forced the selection of Anil Kapoor as one of the characters. In any case, to summarize, both India and Anil Kapoor have been wasted in the movie completely, and there is not even an ounce of saving grace in this regard.


    If Indian viewers are willing to overlook the extremely stereotypical version of Indian streets, traffic, etc during the climactic sequence, this movie is good fun. Tight screenplay, decent story telling, awesome stunts, and Tom Cruise performing as Ethan Hunt, all of these are really compelling reasons to watch this movie.


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  6. At the outset "The Descendants" is a movie based on two, maybe three thin threads of stories with common characters.

    The first one deals with Matt King who is the Managing Trustee of a trust which controls 25000 acres of virgin untouched land in the island of Ka'aui in Hawaii. King and his family members (read cousins, extended cousins, etc) are in the process of finalizing a deal to sell off the land and make a fortune.

    The second thread deals with how Elizabeth King, Matt's wife has met with a boating accident and has gone into a coma. The doctors declare that she is not going to come out of the coma and as per Elizabeth's 'living will' she must be disconnected from life support and allowed to die. Matt, who all this time has only been a 'backup parent' to his daughters must now figure out how to reconcile to Elizabeth's death, bring up his teenage daughters who he barely even knows well enough while dealing with the entire Trust dealings.

    As if these weren't enough, Matt's elder daughter Alexandra reveals to him that Elizabeth had been having an affair with another person behind Matt's back. This all but completely drains Matt's patience and tests him to the extreme.

    The beauty of this movie is the fact that all 3 of these threads have been so nicely interwoven and despite the fact that each one of these is big enough for individual movies by themselves, the fact that they have been dealt with extremely matter of factly without too much of drama thrown in is what takes the cake. Each one of the characters, Matt King, his daughters Alexandra and Scottie, Scottie's friend Sid, Elizabeth's old father, the real estate agent with whom Elizabeth was having an affair, have been well written and do complete justice to their roles.

    George Clooney, as Matt King, who is torn between anger at his wife for her affair, sorrow for losing his wife, utter confusion and despair as to how to be a good father to his daughters, plays the role of a lifetime in this movie. I personally thought Clooney touched new heights in his roles in Michael Clayton and Up in the Air, but with The Descendants he takes it a couple of notches higher. Now I really have to watch The Ides of March in which he is once again said to have done an awesome job. That probably is going to be watched and reviewed sometime soon.

    Roger Ebert who in my opinion is probably one of the best movie reviewers around gave The Descendants a 4 Star Rating and goes on to say - "What happens is that we get vested in the lives of these characters. That's rare in a lot of movies. We come to understand how they think and care about what they decide." Now if that isn't reason enough to watch this movie, what else is?

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    My review of Michael Clayton    
    My review of Up in the Air  

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  7. If any of the readers of this post have read the book 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and intend to watch the movie sometime soon (albeit not in Indian theatres given that the Indian Govt has decided to ban its release in India, will soon write a separate post on that topic), request you folks to read this review with great caution as there are quite a few spoilers ahead which might end up ruining the entire movie watching experience for you.

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    When I first heard that Daniel Craig was going to be portraying the role of Mikael Blomkvist, to be honest I didn't know how to react. While Craig brought the smartness and tough-as-nails personality to the character, whether he would be able to portray the more sensitive, thoughtful part of Blomkvist still remained a question to me. However, given that David Fincher (of The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fight Club fame) has taken liberties with the original script from the book as well as a few liberties with the character sketches themselves meant that Craig does more than an admirable job of translating Blomkvist's character in the movie.

    Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander was, is and I guess will remain pretty much of an unknown entity, at least until all three movies of the Millennium trilogy are released. I am pretty sure that by the end of the trilogy she will become quite the sensation over the world with her well researched, and well crafted portrayal of the complicated character that Salander has been made to be by Stieg Larsson.

    Christopher Plummer as Henrik Vanger is extraordinarily competent and manages to breathe life into the character despite the fact that the movie does not spend as much time with him as the book does. The fact that he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 2012 (albeit for a different movie, Beginners) means that he brings a lot of competence and life to this character. Although I wish that the screenplay had devoted more time to the character, well, to be honest I wish the screenplay had devoted more time to all the other characters as well, but then the movie would have ended up being a 4 hr movie then.

    In any case, am not going into more details of the plot of the movie here but will restrict myself to saying that the primary premise of the movie deals with the investigation of the missing case of Harriet Vanger who disappeared approximately 40 yrs ago and Henrik Vanger uses the services of fallen journalist Mikael Blomkvist to try and find out what really happened to Harriet. How Mikael comes to use the assistance of Lisbeth Salander, how he unravels the mystery using old photographs, how the story unfurls makes the crux of the movie.

    Like I mentioned before the only couple of things that I had complaints with was the fact that the screenplay chose to gloss over almost all the characters, including the leading ones of Blomkvist and Salander. While I am Ok with the Vangers being overlooked, my personal opinion was the character sketches of Blomkvist, Salander and Erica Berger should have been dealt with in a little more detail, even at the cost of lengthening the movie. Given that there are two more movies to follow with these characters, it would have helped the cause of the trilogy.

    Apart from that, notable mention must be made of the fact that the background score for the movie adds a lot to its entire character. Trent Razor and Atticus Ross have done an awesome job of ensuring that the edginess and quirkiness of the Salander character is aptly captured in the music as well. Overall the entire sound recording and the background score of the movie add a lot to its already wonderful premise.

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  8. Now if you are a book lover and a regular reader of the thriller action genre of books there's no way that you could have missed reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. This book made the literary circles and the bestseller lists of the world go ga-ga sometime ago.

    The plot deals with the case of a young girl who has been missing for 30+ years and how the girl's grandfather hires an investigative journalist to trace the girl. Interspersed with the fact that the journalist himself is in the middle of a career threatening situation and in the company of a maverick young lady detective, the plot has all the elements that a thriller action book should have. An extremely compelling read, and this coming from somebody who had not actually read a book completely in quite a while.

    Enough about the book because I could go on and on and my opinions on the book itself could make up yet another blog post by itself, or maybe even more than one because that was how impressed I was with the book. While I first heard that they were about to make an English movie based on this book, I was piqued as the Swedish Movie made on this book was apparently quite a hit and did justice to the complex book that this actually is. The English version stars none other than our very own gritty Daniel Craig. Now with the main character of Mikael Blomqvist being played by Craig, there is no way that I can afford to miss this movie when it does come down to India.

    For now the YouTube version of the trailer has to suffice -

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  9. You know you are in for a ride when the movie begins with a panoramic view of the Earth from the other side, the dark side of the Moon. Quite a nice touch there, using the actual dark side of the Moon to mean much more than just literally the dark side of the moon, but then, hey we aren't discussing the philosophical side of this title are we? Because if we are, then that is pretty much the topic of an entirely different post or maybe even a whole blog devoted to that :)


    In any case, if you have read my earlier reviews of Transformers and Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen , you can clearly see that I am quite a fan of the Transformers franchise and the characters itself. Something about the fact that these vehicles 'transform' into these awesomely huge robots which kick some serious butt is exciting and takes me back to my teenage days. Having said, I will start this review with the disclaimer that I will tend to be a little biased probably towards making this movie actually sound a lot better than most of the world probably found it to be.


    The story begins in 1961 when a Cybertronian spacecraft called the Ark carrying an invention capable of rebuilding Cybertron crashes into the dark side of the Moon. In fact the movie claims that this is the main reason that JFK put all his money and resolve behind getting man on the moon before the Russians did so that they can recover the alien spacecraft and keep it for themselves. I loved this particular distortion of history for cinematic purposes, plus it probably gives a more plausible reason as to why the USA and the Russians were in such a hurry in the 1960s to get to the Moon. It was not like there was water on the Moon in any case :)


    The Autobots, while investigating Decepticon activity in Chernobyl come across a fuel cell from the Ark. This in turn leads them to the dark side of the Moon where they find Sentinel Prime, former leader of the Primes guarding the rest of the fuel cells in the Ark. He however is in a coma and Optimus Prime uses the energy from the Matrix of Leadership to revive him and brings him back to Earth.


    So far so good. However, it's only after Sentinel Prime lands on Earth that the real plot begins to unravel. Giving that part of the story up in this review would spoil the entire movie for anybody who's not yet watched the movie itself. In any case, suffice to say that good ol' Megatron is back for the party, Chicago as a city is almost wrecked and we have enough and more explosions and stunt sequences to keep the kids happy till they become teenagers.


    All in all, this movie turns out to be a stock summer blockbuster just like the earlier two movies in this franchise, albeit marginally better than the second one though. That being said there's nothing really memorable about this instalment though. I guess the novelty kind of wears off and the fact that there's only so many times that you can actually see robots taking each other on in urban settings and get excited about it. In fact what works against this movie is the fact that given that most action movies have these awesome stunt sequences nowadays there's nothing really spectacular or different about this movie that makes it stand out from the rest of the crowd. That being said, if you are a fan of the Transformers franchise and the characters, this movie has enough to keep you excited. What is good about this franchise is that each movie almost seamlessly picks up from where the earlier one ends.


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  10. While the posters of Vaanam bandied around Anushka dressed glamorously, Bharath posing with a guitar and Simbu in various poses, it gave me the impression that this was a run of the mill masala movie with the usual mass elements such as songs, dances, fights, glamour, etc etc. However, people who actually went to the theatre and watched the movie gave quite decent reviews and asked me to watch it at least once due to the fact that it was quite a different movie, in a nice way.


    However, when I did pop in the VCDs into the player I personally didn't expect the movie to be as good as it actually turned out to be. And that's probably why I felt quite refreshed and did quite enjoy the movie as well. Guess having low expectations and having them belied works well in some cases. 


    An ensemble cast of Simbu, Bharath, Anushka, Prakash Raj and Saranya make the most of the limited screen time given to each of them. Five different stories of each of these characters, each of them making up a nice short film by itself, each one of them promising to be reasonably good and meaningful by itself and how they all end up converging at the climax makes for an interesting premise.


    With movies like these where there is more than one single primary story line, it is quite a tricky job tying up all the loose ends and making a coherent movie. Krish more than manages to do this, and in the process ended up making a nice movie. The one single theme through most of the movie revolves around the difficult circumstances for each one of these characters. 


    While Simbu and Saranya are struggling for some money, Prakash Raj is looking for his brother who disappeared three years ago. Anushka wants to get away from the clutches of her villainous pimp, and Bharath is in the process of rediscovering himself. While each one of these story lines pull their weight in the movie, the themes surrounding Prakash Raj and Saranya can probably be made into individual movies by themselves. And kudos to the director Krish and the respective actors that they bring a lot of credibility to these roles with their prowess. 


    All in all Vaanam probably was the most under-rated, under-hyped and good movies to hit Tamil movie theatres in a while. A must watch movie for all movie lovers.


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