But he chose to look that way,” he adds.īut similarities don’t end with the look and narration. “Again, having him so strikingly similar to my dad was too emotional a thing for me to handle. And that’s when Suriya expressed his interest in doing both roles,” Gautham adds.Īpparently, on the knowledge that this was a story about Gautham and his dad’s relationship, Suriya himself pulled out pictures of Gautham’s father and worked his look based on that.
But the issue was about how they’d handle their flashback phase when they’re supposed to be in their twenties. “I had approached both Nana Patekar and Mohanlal for the dad’s role. “But it really wasn’t my idea to have Suriya play both dad and son,” he quips, revealing no fondness for the concept of a double action. “I was in America when I lost my dad and my journey back home was ripe with memories of the times I had with him,” the director recounts. Bless the old wise hag who once remarked that real lives fascinate more than fiction.įrom the narrative technique of the story unfolding after the father’s death, And it is here that director Gautham Vasudev Menon, playing a mere chronicler of the extraordinary tale of his relationship with his father, scores. I will always love this film no matter how much times I've seen it, and it continues to be relevant and relatable, all these years later.Extraordinary things can happen in ordinary lives, and treading on a theme that’s so much fantasy as real is seldom tried in Tamil cinema. Not a lot of filmmakers care about the small details, but you know for sure Menon does.
We see each progression slowly but with great detail. Everything is done and shown with so much care. Whether it be the awkward teen years, the brash confidence of young adulthood, the confusion of post education, the tragedy and devastation of heartbreak and failure, and the rise from the failure. He showcases the journey of life so wonderfully too. There's so much honest convos in this film, so honest that you feel like its something straight out of your life.
It's based around his life and upbringing, and its obviously dedicated towards his father. What makes this film so great is how Gautham Menon directed it. Ratnavelu is so amazing, he shows each stage of life with complete care and visual accuracy. Harris Jayaraj delivers an amazing score and songs that really just sit with you for years and years. Simran offers a subtle but nuanced portrayal of a loving wife and mother, who just wants the best for the family. You believe each transformation because he physically and mentally commits. Suriya just transforms himself into each stage of life in this film. They might have done big movies before and after this one, but none of them will ever have the same impact this film had on myself and the countless other people that have seen it. Suriya and Simran both deliver such amazing performances in this film. Like those films, Vaaranam Aayiram is a gold standard example of what a film about life should look like. Movies like Forrest Gump, Nayagan, and Thavamai Thavamirundhu showcased journeys of protagonists from their youth to adulthood. Suriya and Gautham Menon created one of the greatest character journey films I've ever seen. When I first watched this film in theaters, little did I know that the pair that brought us Kaakha Kaakha would deliver one of the greatest tamil cinema films of all time.
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