![]() ![]() ![]() VTV promos were great and catchy – the absence of any details about the cast and crew and their release being timed around the Valentine Day gave great salience to the product in the mind of its youthful audience. That this is regarded to be a pragmatic approach and lauded indirectly is to my mind, a reflection of the cold-hearted calculations that have replaced ones emotions. She is forever caught in two minds and the so-called ‘love’ is just an episode in her life that she manages well without having to stake her future. VTV is a classy movie but the vital soul is missing – there is no real spunkiness shown by the pair particularly the heroine. Trisha and Simbu in Gautham Menon’s VTV Image Courtesy – Mostly the star-crossed lovers rebel for a lost cause and the movies have tragic endings. I guess the cult movie for my generation was K Balachander’s ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye’. Inter-religious love stories in Tamil cinema are a mixed bag. Bharathirajaa gave us a youthful and carefree outing in ‘Alaigal Oivathillai’ while Raja Paarvai had an equally spunky Nancy who falls for a blind violinist Ragu.
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