Spoilers : Yes,the one and only one.
It was quite an experience watching Bheema.Ok.I’m neither giving a review nor an opinion.I would just like to jot down what transpired in the theater amongst our group and a few thoughts that ran through my mind while watching this movie .[There,now no one can blame me :-P].At the very outset,you get to know its some gangwar,mafia kindof movie when in the opening scenes ,someone refers to someone else and someone else talks about someone else hiding somewhere else and generally using the word pottu thallu liberally.However,my interest piqued on seeing Vikram’s intro shot.Have to admit,that was one helluva scene.One terrific sideways angle to introduce yourself in.I tried myself to get that pose after coming back home[minus the biceps].Vikram really seemed to have worked out a lot to get into the body of the character.Hats off to you for that,Viks.But,my interest rate diminished as rapidly as it had increased in the following one hour when Vikram was busying bashing up goondas as though he was swatting flies.But,he seriously looked pretty convincing in his role,what with all those bulging biceps,triceps whatever.Then came the flashback.While Vikram was busy expressing how he found his role model and inspiration in Bheema,our little perverted minds here were reeling our own little so-gay Shekar-Chinna [Bheema-PrakashRaj] love story in our seats.What to do ?When theres so much bashing up and so thin a story line and dialogues like “Antha neram,en manasellaam Chinnaava pathi nenappu thaan “,we had to resort to somehow find a little [however perverted it sounds] story in there.So,thus,we laughed our heads off in the seats for a while and thus managed to entertain ourselves before the intermission.Then the story really started getting somewhere after that.And,I was very very happy with the climax.’Cos ,to me,it was unexpected.And,I felt all the three main protagonists deserved what they got. When Bheema songs had just been released,I didn’t find them all that great.But ,after watching the movie in the theater,I’ve started to like Mudhal Mazhai quite a bit.Not that the picturisation was excellent.Perhaps ,the songs were a welcome change in between all that pottu thallufying and thookufying.Trisha ,generally,looked gorgeous.And,seriously,is she becoming a comedy actress or what ? Nowadays,theres no separated comedy track in Trisha movies…Hmm.
There was a big split in opinion,though,in the group,about the movie.While half of us felt it wasn’t too bad,the other half felt the story was going nowhere.While three of us were very happy about the climax,the rest were disappointed that the director not only managed to finish off the three main protagonists,but,also the audience as well,in the process.But,definitely,my spouse was immensely enjoying all the hitting and the bashing [Wonder if its all his unfulfilled desires to whack me once in a while that led to this ??Heh.I hope not]. I can’t remember the last time I watched a tamil movie and came out thinking that “Now,that was a good movie”.Its either “Not bad” or “Can watch once”.Maniratnam,come back to Tamizh cinema.Gautham Menon,let Vaaranam Aayiram be a nice mature love story as you have potrayed in all your earlier movies.Dasavatharam, get released.Till then,I think I should stop going to the movies.
I think I am blue-blooded [ I mean,my blood turns blue fast,especially at end-points like fingers and toes,only ]. Really,me only fit for the Indian summer.
