Amara Kaaviyam Review - The graph of Untamed Love

PUBLISHED DATE : 05/Sep/2014

Amara Kaaviyam Review - The graph of Untamed Love

Amara Kaaviyam - The graph of Untamed Love

Bharath Vijayakumar


If last week was Vijay Antony's second outing as hero after Naan this week sees Naan director's second venture. Touted as a pure love story and with a poetic title does the film penetrate our hearts? 

 

Plot:


Set in the later part of the eighties ‘Amara Kaaviyam’ is an intense love story that travels like a graph showcasing the pleasures and pains of untamed love. Two youngsters at the prime of their teens fall for each other and struggle to cope up with their emotions.

 

Cast:


This  is Sathya’s second work as an actor after the lesser known ‘Puthagam’ and he is made reasonableuse of the opportunity. As the short tempered teenager who is at trouble with his inner self he impresses.  Mia making her Tamil debut is probably the find of the season. The transformations in her character  from a bold high school student to a responsible young adult is brought about beautifully by her. She emotes convincingly even without dialogues. While Sathya looks rustier among the two, the age the characters play turns in his favour as some of Mia’s actions look beyond her age. The entire supporting cast of the film is of the highest standard. Not one actor looks out of place and each is at his/her natural best.

 

Crew:


Jeeva Sankar’s visuals and Ghibran’s tunes and score are the two pillars of Amara Kaaviyam. The scenic beauty of Ooty keeps us enchanted. The visuals are drop dead gorgeous. Ghibran’s BGM is rhyming within us for quite some time after we leave the auditorium.

 

Direction:


Jeeva Sankar has proved his mettle once again. With a film that is nowhere close in any way to his debut Naan he proves that he is in complete command of the medium. The film traces a simple and straightforward story. Yet you are sucked into it right from the start. While some people might have taken a whole twenty minutes to narrate an essential part of the story, here the maker does the same with a song during the starting credits. The detailing of the eighties is quite good with Amul billboards and out of production scooters gracing the screen. But somehow, often you get the feel that you are watching something that is happening now and not really two decades back. The highly mature interactions of the lead pair when they are just school students is a bit hard to believe, more so when the story is set in the eighties. Almost no one in the film has a negative streak and the turmoil that each of them is forced to face is due to the situation and do not look contrived. Even the climax with it’s shock value gels well as the maker has subconsciously prepared us for it with the way Sathya’s character is sketched. The director is not in a rush to narrate his story and this is a film that needs to be like that.

 

Botttomline:


The film is a reflection on how untamed emotions can play havoc. A true blue love story that does not take sides, does not rush through and simply narrates a story and has us involved throughout.

 

Rating:3/5

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