Vanna Jigina – True Colours Of Love!!!

Bharath Vijayakumar

Okay. So someone has finally decided that it is enough of having extremely good looking people fall for each other on screen. And Kudos for having a relevant title as well.

Plot:

In this day of social networking having an entirely different persona for online life seems easy.  So what if someone who has an inferiority complex finds this handy and tries to find love?

Cast:

The actors have done a decent job. While the acting does look amateurish at times it is always within tolerable limits. And given the realistic nature of the film this does not really play a major spoilsport.

Direction:

Nanda Periasamy has to be credited for making a socially relevant film. There are instances in the first half when you wonder if this is another film that looks at love from a male point of view and if love is solely about ‘correcting the figure’ as dialogues from any random film would lead us to believe. And when the hero selects his ‘figure’ in FB and then we have song where the lyrics imply that the hero sees his mother in his ladylove you really do not anticipate things to get better. But the second half is a rap in our knuckles and we get to see something we rarely do in the space of Tamil cinema. Not only the notion of love based on looks is dealt upon but the most heartwarming aspect is that there is absolutely no gender bias. If the hero is looking for a ‘perceived good looking’ partner, so is the heroine. And both of them are perceived as ‘unattractive’.  It is very important that we do not miss to use the word ‘perceived’ as appearances and what people make out of them are relative. Black is not ugly just like how white is not beautiful.  That is why the usage of the term ‘Karuppi’ does not sting as much as when the leads say that they accept each other in spite of their ‘shortcomings’ in the climax. A few careless mistakes could have been avoided. The villain gets his left eye hurt in an accident but we see bruises on his right eye. Also in a crisp film with a runtime of 114 minutes why do we still think that songs are mandatory?

Bottomline:

Despite not being cinematically top notch with an amateurish feel knocking now and then, the film is worth a watch just for what it wants to convey. The climax sans melodrama is a winner and this is a film that rightfully deserves the tag ‘With the heart in the right place’.

Rating: 2.75/5