Gautam Vasudev Menon, the contemporary king of romance in Tamil cinema is back with his latest flick, Neethaane enn ponvasantham starring Jeeva and Samantha in the lead. Now, what does a typical Gautam Vasudev Menon film Have ?
An English speaking middle class household Yes NEP has that !
Hero who is an engineering student Yes NEP has that!
Hero taking a shoulder bag and going in search of the heroine , Yes NEP has that !
Hero is a wastrel in the beginning but during the course of the movie he becomes very serious in his profession and leaves behind his love, Yes NEP has that too!
Lots of Ego clashes between hero and heroine, Yes NEP has that as well !
Hero and heroine roaming around most restaurants, Coffee shops around chennai, especially ECR, Yes NEP has that also !!!
For Starters, NEP looks like a proper cocktail of previous movies of Gautam Vasudev Menon like Vaaranam Aayiram, Minnale, VTV...
THE PLOT.... ( SPOILER WARNING )
A boy and a girl keep meeting each other in life right from childhood, deeply love each other but Ego, Responsibilities, situations keep coming in between them where they keep breaking away from each other until they finally get married and happily "fought" ever after.
PERFORMANCES...
Nothing new about the script,but the usual Gautam Vasudev Menon's "touch" and classy screenplay are missing badly in the movie, Dialogues which are strong points of the Director's movies are also very ordinary in NEP except for a few enjoyable one's like those where Jeeva talks to Samantha referring her as a third person friend that he has.
Both the lead pair, Jeeva and samantha have delivered good performances and santhanam ( Starting an intro song for him in the movie) lends the much needed support to the weak script,but still gives a feeling that the director could have used him more.The camera and the visuals are cool as with all of the director's movies, with the most noteworthy mention being the "Dining room" angle that is used in most of the scenes that take place in jeeva's house.Editing could have been better as too many scenes are clearly impeding the speed of the movie.The strongest point of the movie easily is the music by Ilayaraja where all songs are chartbusters and clear winners.
Having Made a Cult film like VTV, Gautam Menon should not have followed it with a film in the same genre like he has done with NEP, thus making NEP a pretty badly timed bouquet of Gautam menon's previous romantic flicks. If you want to watch a slow paced , feel good love story with good music, watch NEP. If you are not too keen on such flicks, better stay away !
My rating 3/5
An English speaking middle class household Yes NEP has that !
Hero who is an engineering student Yes NEP has that!
Hero taking a shoulder bag and going in search of the heroine , Yes NEP has that !
Hero is a wastrel in the beginning but during the course of the movie he becomes very serious in his profession and leaves behind his love, Yes NEP has that too!
Lots of Ego clashes between hero and heroine, Yes NEP has that as well !
Hero and heroine roaming around most restaurants, Coffee shops around chennai, especially ECR, Yes NEP has that also !!!
For Starters, NEP looks like a proper cocktail of previous movies of Gautam Vasudev Menon like Vaaranam Aayiram, Minnale, VTV...
THE PLOT.... ( SPOILER WARNING )
A boy and a girl keep meeting each other in life right from childhood, deeply love each other but Ego, Responsibilities, situations keep coming in between them where they keep breaking away from each other until they finally get married and happily "fought" ever after.
PERFORMANCES...
Nothing new about the script,but the usual Gautam Vasudev Menon's "touch" and classy screenplay are missing badly in the movie, Dialogues which are strong points of the Director's movies are also very ordinary in NEP except for a few enjoyable one's like those where Jeeva talks to Samantha referring her as a third person friend that he has.
Having Made a Cult film like VTV, Gautam Menon should not have followed it with a film in the same genre like he has done with NEP, thus making NEP a pretty badly timed bouquet of Gautam menon's previous romantic flicks. If you want to watch a slow paced , feel good love story with good music, watch NEP. If you are not too keen on such flicks, better stay away !
My rating 3/5
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