Vaaranam Aaiyiram - the better title is Yaanai Thousand or Elephant Aayiram !!!!

Vaaranam Aaiyiram..mixed opinions, though its definitely not a master piece , can be watched once for few things:

(STATUTORY WARNING: few spoilers are there)

1) The excellent love track between Surya and Sameera. It starts like an usual Love-At-First-Sight (eventhough I don’t believe that, but sameera va paatha yaara irundaalum they’ll fall in love) and ends up as an eternal love. The scene where he tried to convince her to stay back in India was just awesome. The whole track keeps the movie live for first half.
2) Anjalai song: Fate separates the lovers and this song comes after that. Surya got an intrinsic way of showing few things, like when he first meet sameera he used to keep his hands on heart and try to stop the extra-poundings. During this song, which portrays the pathos side has been churned out well with dance movements like he will hit his heart with the same hands to show the pain…
3) Surya’s acting has improved a lot and this is definitely his career best. Excellent performance from him and he has shown that thin margin btw son and dad. He’s definitely an inspirational dad!!!!
4) Sameera: wow, she’s absolutely fantastic. No skin shows, just expressions, the glimpse she gives when she meet surya in US is simply outstanding…it disturbed my sleep for some hours ;)
5) Technical department: Technical department is simply outstanding. It’s really refreshing to see the visuals and in particular; songs and fights. The fights during the rescue of the child are so natural and “adiyae kolluthey” is best for its choreography and picturization.

I hope 5 reasons are more than enough to watch a movie…now to bloopers.

1) The movie name is derived from aandal thirupaavai, an excellent rendition on lord perumal. That’s the only time u see something in pure tamil, for rest of the movie even the paper boy will use standard idioms. So B & C centres la padam kandippa puttukum. There’s a scene in which divya tells surya, “you look like million bucks!!!” My roomie: “dei, iva ippo ennada sonna????”
2) Length!!!!! well, though surya-sameera part is an interesting one, but the length really made us tired and everyone were expecting an interval to peee(athisayamaa PVR la nethu AC fulla irunduchu, the moment interval title card came, everyone were running out) In second half after surya getting married, the movie runs for another 30 odd mins...sathiyama ukaara mudiyala!!!!!!
3) Slow!!!!! When the movie ended we felt like stayed in theatre for some months!!!! Though the movie is slow, none of the things are detailed. The whole story is in narrative manner, so if it’s little more detailed, it would had been a great pleasure to watch
4) Re-Recording…a big letdown!!! Songs are really good but harris re-recording was pathetic to the core. I always had a doubt whether this guy is an "aathivaasi", and he proved that once again with his cruel re-recording. Wish I had a remote to mute few scenes!!!!!
5) Father-Son relationship was portrayed bit larger than life and it’s not acceptable at times.

Avlothaan pa….this is purely my personal opinion. One more spoiler alert, people who follow mass heroes pls avoid this movie!!!!!!!!