Comments on: Vaaranam Aayiram: Gautham’s Autograph http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/ Sudhish Kamath's Pad On The Net Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ceebu http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-6005 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:12:18 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-6005 Wow ! Almost all responses – with negative overtones ;-)

I guess each one has his flavour.. I for one liked the movie – in spite – of its imperfections. Surya has done a wonderful job in portraying the character.. the movie focuses more on the feeling than the actual incidents – and that’s where I think, Gautham wanted it to be..

]]> By: Vijay http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-6004 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:13:12 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-6004 Nice review. But personally I felt the father-son sentiment was artificial. There’s something about Gautam’s films that I find very wannabe-ish.
“Daddy” is acceptable as common parlance. Too many daddies spoil the broth…and the “hey kiddo”s were plain irritating.
There wasn’t a single moment in the feel, imho, that actually brought out a strong emotional bond between dad and son. Repeating “I love you daddy” every other time the flashback comes isn’t exactly convincing enough. With all due respect to Gautam intentions to do this as an autobiography, I feel he could’ve concentrated more on giving depth to the characters. Atleast the lead characters.
Something he could learn from a movie like Kannathil Muthamittal, by the director Gautam tries albeit in vain, to imitate.
2 brownie points to Gautam for splitting with HJ. The rerecording has to be the worst I’ve ever heard in a movie. Sam Anderson had better music :P

]]> By: visalakshi http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-5999 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:24:26 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-5999 sudhish i couldn’t watch the movie after 10 mins. it was horrible….gautham should stick to thrillers…the film would have clicked if he had used appa instead of daddy. It sounds funny every time surya utters daddy. Really messed up movie. Please dont compare this movie with autograph. Its insulting

]]> By: Manikandan http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-5998 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:15:22 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-5998 Suderman,

The movie disappointed despite the hype given.We are expecting your original review on this movie.

]]> By: Anto http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-5996 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:01:44 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-5996 Hi sudhish

the movie is disappointing and it never stirred any emotions which it was intended. The feel is missing. certainly not as expected.

]]> By: Jupe http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-5995 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:26:46 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-5995 IMHO, the movie was a great concept gone completely wrong.

You’ve mentioned most of the glaring minuses (grossly overused voiceover, ridiculously excessive English dialogues, the length of the movie giving one the feeling that it will just not end) but they are more in passing when I’d expect you to rip the film apart just on the basis of those excesses..Btw, if in your opinion Vikram idolizing Prakash Raj in Bheema had homosexual overtones, then Surya’s daddy and kiddo are no better…

Have you ‘sold out’ (or) is it that you don’t want to believe that Gautam Vasudev Menon could have gone SO wrong (or) are you just being ‘nice’ to a good man? Pls tell me its the last…

More random ranting:
- if there is one major gripe I have about the movie, its the casting…If Dasavataram frustrated me because Kamal played atleast 2-3 roles purely to satisfy his ego and to make up the magic number of 10, then Surya playing the father in this movie just reinforced my opinion that every director in this industry panders to stars. A cinematic masterstroke would have been having Sivakumar play the father’s role but then, the least that Gautam could have done was to cast a Rajkiran / Nasser or any good character artiste. And y-t-h did we need to have Simran play that role? For one, it was a lousily written character and secondly, Simran was horrible.

- For a supposedly emotional movie, I can’t remember a single scene where I had a moist eye or a lump in my throat… and that says it all…Vaaranam Aayiram just made me realise how under-rated Autograph is.

]]> By: Arun Chander http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-5993 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:42:50 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-5993 While the movie overall was okay, there were lots of inconsistencies in surya’s look in the film.. Once he returns from college, his look keeps switching between the one he has on th train and the moustache look.. Should’ve been taken care of..

]]> By: vasanthi http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-5992 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:36:16 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-5992 Hi Sudhish, I was like not able to sit through the movie.

]]> By: Nirenjan’s Space » Blog Archive » Vaaranam Aayiram http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-5988 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:52:26 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-5988 [...] Read Sudhish’s review here. [...]

]]> By: kk http://sudhishkamath.com/2008/11/14/vaaranam-aayiram-gauthams-autograph/#comment-5987 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:05:56 +0000 http://sudhishkamath.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-5987 dude..i like hatd the film. plz mention ‘normal public- don’t watch, critics-plz watch’.!

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