Raja Rani, a slapstick romance

Raja Rani – definitely the next big Tamil romance film, though it’s an old wine in a new bottle. Before the release of the film, mixed promotional activities have taken this film to the audience and at last created a big opening. The debutant director has given his preeminent and begun a remarkable film career through Raja Rani, a head turning film. It’s one of the romantic films that to be added to the lists under Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya and Mounaragam. How Raja (john) wins Rani’s (Rajina) heart is the full length feature film with the combo of feelings and humors.

Director Atlee’s cinematic screenplay has leveraged the film one step further. People who have seen Maniratnam’s master piece Mounaragam would have felt hard to digest the climax, because of the similarity of scenes. The debutant director has beautifully crafted the dialogues between Nayanthra and Satyaraj, the emotional bond between these characters have worked very well in the screens. Actor Jai’s funny dialogues and magnificent acting have attracted theatre audience and in-turn received claps as an acknowledgement meanwhile hatred wife Nayanthara amazed the audience by her realistic performance. Nayanthara and Arya’s splendid acting inside the sets of colorful and illuminating backgrounds had added realism to the film. G.V. Prakash kumar’s music is pleasant to hear in between the songs and for the background musical score, in some places the composer has failed to take his fingers from keyboard.

Santhanam comes as a childhood friend for Arya, as he does in all of his films; he is the main lead to introduce Nazria Nazim.  Jai, BPO professional gets prank call from Nayanthara and finally falls in love with her. Arya, jobless youth proposes to Nazria, an orphan who works in IT by staying in her uncle home, initially she covers her love and by and by she opens up to Arya. Satyaraj, widower and opulent business man who is willing to do anything for the sake of his daughter’s happiness, emotionally compels his daughter Nayanthara to marry Arya.  Hatred marriage life sprouts love between them slowly after knowing their love failure flashbacks. Youth targeted film portrays the past love life of each character through flashbacks and focuses on romance and humor. Did Arya impress Nayanthara or not? is the climax. It’s an interesting film to watch with your special ones and don’t ever miss out this romance flick.

-Lingaraja Sivanaiah