Neethane En Ponvasantham movie review

Neethane En Ponvasantham , directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon is a story of Varun and Nithya, two childhood sweethearts and their journey of life together. As the director claims, it is a musical journey, and Ilayaraja's breezy songs keep reaching the shore within short intervals. The movie starts with Varun Krishnan( Jiiva) and Nithya Vasudevan ( Samantha) meeting each other at inter college culturals. The director takes us to the past , back in school when the couple Varun and Nithya broken up for some reason. The story then comes to the present and forays into the future of these two.

Jiiva as Varun Krishnan: Jiiva has once again proved that he is a great performer and essays the role of Varun with ease. He gives his best expressions and wears one kind of an attitude throughout the movie. He tries very hard to look like a school student though.


Samantha as Nithya Vasudevan: Samantha has done justice to her role by not just performing properly, but also by dubbing her own voice. Her expressions are appropriate and she fits into the role perfectly.


Santhanam as Prakash: Santhanam comes in as Varun's close friend in college and manages to make us laugh with his rib tickling one liners and expressions and also gets to spoof Gautham Menon's earlier venture 'Vinnaithandi Varuvaya'. He can also be called a 'relief' in few scenes where the narration is quite slow. And the best part- he has also got a pair in the movie!


Vidulekha Raman as Jenny: An awesome find! Vidyulekha is Santhanam's pair in the movie and she has done an outstanding job which would in fact gain her a lot of attention. She sets the audience to laughter along with Santhanam.


Gautham Menon: The story is a typical Gautham Menon type and it also has few trademark scenes and dialogues which will make you go "Gautham's movie,okay?". The story is engaging and relate-able, but the dialogues are too lengthy. Many scenes are shot at a stretch from the same angle which at times triggers boredom in us.


Ilayaraja: The actual hero of the whole film. Gautham has made the best use of the maestro and the songs are appropriately placed( though they come once in every few minutes or so) according to the situation. The background music is also apt to the situations and Ilayaraja has done justice to the songs whole-heartedly!


Now, I'll give you few points why and why shouldn't you go for the movie( Yeah. The positives and negatives)

You should go: Ilayaraja's music, Gautham Menon's movie, This could be your life story(which is also the tag line of the title), the lead characters acting and to while away 3 hours.

You shouldn't go: Slow and irksome, The 'I hate romance' characters, lengthy dialogues.




Overall, Gautham Menon takes us all for a beautiful romantic trip. Mr. Menon, but the ship is moving too slow!




Stars: 7.8/10