I watched a movie “Ek deewana tha” a few days ago. Though predictable romantic movies are NOT in my “movies-to-watch” list since long time, but found this movie quite fine. The music played a vital role in this thought I guess. It was predictable, as mention by many in reviews, but was not totally insane, like the once our bollywood has produced a lot of times. These days it seems bollywood is suffering from some kind of “lets-make-insane-movies” epidemic :P …
A friend suggested the original Tamil make i.e. “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya”. Just completed this Tamil make and found both the movies exactly the same as far as the story goes, till I saw the end. “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya” climax was way good better than the Hindi make. Climax of “EK deewana tha” seem to be dipped in the bollywood curry. I don’t blame the director, at last he makes films for the audience and this is what bollywood audience has projected about themselves.
Now I am sure that the climax of “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya” would have been made keeping in mind the kollywood audience. All I am saying that for me Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya had a better ending (I guess I should think of migrating to some Tamil oriented Theatres now :D). I liked it because for me it was more logical.
Since the start bollywood has loved propagating one thing, “when one is in love, whatever “THE HEART” decides is correct”… Till now “THE HEART” has done a pretty good job of pumping blood to each part of the body, but still I am not sure how would “THE HEART” perform in this job which is totally not related to his work experience :)
Anyways leaving my personal disappointments behind and coming back to the original topic, the climax of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya gave many things in the movie a logical reasoning, things which would seem to be just fillers.
For example the song “Mannipaaya”, Google says the meaning is “Will you forgive me”. The replica song in the Hindi remake “Ek deewana tha” portraits girl asking forgiveness to the guy for various things she did to him, which actually excited the guy in the complete course, but again let’s me prevent myself from going into the dark clueless path of analyzing a song in literal sense and try finding a logical end in it.
This song was just a song; rather filler in the Hindi remake. But in “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya” the climax gave a totally new meaning to it. It made me think that the director had a life planned for the song.
Now, I like the complete movie “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya” and as “Ek deewana tha” was an exact make of it, the scene of “Ek deewana tha” also made me feel good.
But it seems evident that the actress in “Ek deewana tha” had difficulty in speaking Hindi and as a result the lip movement with the dialogues didn’t have that feel. This was one major reason why I was getting detached in the movie and it demanded efforts from my end to stay connected. Also in the Tamil make, the male protagonist acted as if this was it, either act good here or go home. Tinny things like his hand trembling while he was holding himself from crying in scene where he meets Jessi in America. This made me feel that he is a good actor.
And after this scene the climax, I was in shock. A similar shock I did get when I saw movies like chocolate of bollywood, though chocolate sits at the supreme position, but I am not comparing here. A shock which is an outcome of the situation wherein you get hit by something totally unexpected. Of course the reason I was shocked is I saw the Hindi remake first and both the movies were running parallel till the climax came. So the pre-judgement that both the movies are same and then the different climax was more responsible. It was not a climax which one can’t imagine when your mind is neutral; the mind was morphed by the Hindi remake.
But this doesn’t change the fact that the acting of people involved in “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya”, the authentic feel of the scenes and the people blending into it, etc. kept this movie ahead in the race and the climax came in as a last push to victory J
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