Neethane En Ponvasantham review

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1.5 / 5

Gautham Menon is back with his brand of romance - showing us the so-called modern, classy and high-society couple, Nithya Vasudevan and Varun Krishnan. Starting from childhood through to school, college and finally as young adults, this pair just can't live without each other and when they are together they just can't stop arguing with each other. Ego clashes, misunderstandings, priority changes etc. do their part in keeping the couple apart until the climax. Check out the movie to know if the pair does unite in the end.

• Ilaiyaraja's songs sound so ordinary on screen. Sad. Not a single song has been picturized memorably. The scope for the Maestro to show his RR skills is also close to ZERO. Sad 
• And GVM, Pls stop singing on screen. It sounds bad and irritating, to put it mild. For how long will you keep showing your hero wooing his girl with an old Ilaiyaraja song? 
• The movie is a big drag and an absolute bore. Audiences are absolutely restless and are waiting for the movie to finish by the time it drags to the finish line. 
• People are laughing in the theater whenever Santhanam appears on screen, irrespective of whether his jokes are good or not. We can't even hear what he is speaking thanks to the unbridled laughter that he incites in the crowd. That said, his portions are THE ONLY SOLACE in the movie. The VTV spoof, his attempts at speaking English, his one-liners are spot-on as always
• Jiiva has nothing special to do. Samantha makes a really earnest effort to emote and she has succeeded. Her school days look is so cute and drool worthy, particularly the hair style. Her efforts to dub for herself are also commendable. But Gautham Menon has characterized her role in such a way that you get restless whenever she starts speaking a lengthy dialog. 
• There are heavy touches of Vaaranam Aayiram (the modest father (Varun's father) character akin to Krishnan in VA , Varun's sudden realization to turn responsible and do an MBA)
• There are heavy touches of VTV as well (a park scene towards the end between the lead pair, the hero's trip to Manapad to get back his girl - it was Kerala in VTV, here it's our very own TN)
• On the whole, the film is hardly engaging and it is an ordeal. 
• They are so many suggestive kissing scenes but none is actually shown. Atleast a couple of liplocks could have salvaged the ticket amount. 

FINAL WORD: Stale, dragging, hardly exciting and nothing interesting on offer. DAMP SQUIB