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jeevi rating: 4/5
Punchline: it's a classic!
Genre: Romance
Type: Straight
Banner: Indira ProductionsCast: Naga Chaitanya, Samantha, Krishnudu, Sanjay
Swaroop, Surekha VaniMusic: AR Rahman
Cinematography: Manoj Paramahamsa
Editing: Anthony
Lyrics: Anant Sreeram
Dialogues: Anuradha
Story - screenplay - director: Gowtam Vasudev Menon
Producer: Sanjay Swaroop
Release date: 26 February 2010
Theater watched: Prasads multiplex (screen 2), Hyderabad ReviewStory
Karthik (Naga Chaitanya) is an engineering graduate who wants to pursue his
career as a film director. Samantha is his neighbour and he falls in love with
her at the very first sight. But there are two catches. One is that she is
elder to him and the bigger hitch is that she is a Malayali Christian. He
proposes to her and she slowly falls for his guts and his perseverance. Her
strict father comes to know about it and settles her marriage. She loves him,
but can’t hurt her entire family by marrying him. The rest of the story is all
about how Karthik achieves his passion to become a film director and tastes
success at the personal front.Artists PerformanceNaga Chaitanya: Naga Chaitanya
is extremely natural in the role of Karthik. It is basically a conversational
film with too many tight close-ups. It takes real confidence and acting prowess
to do such scenes in an authoritative manner. Naga Chaitanya proves that he is
a brilliant actor with his
performance in this movie. His dialogue delivery and body language is highly
authentic. You are not going to believe that this is his second film after
watching his performance. It’s a top notch effort from him and he will do
wonders in the future.Samantha: Samantha’s debut is one of the best heroine
debuts in Telugu cinema. This dusky beauty is highly charming and she is cool
in acting as well. The minute expressions she gave spoke volumes about her.
Lots of credit should go to director for etching her beautiful
characterization. I absolutely loved the voice of the artist who dubbed her.
She is the same one who dubbed the voice of Sameera Reddy in ‘Surya s/o
Krishnan’. It’s husky and contemporary.Others: Krishnudu is very good as hero’s
friend. Sanjay Swaroop (producer and husband of Manjula) did the role of hero’s
father and he suited it well. Puri Jagan played as himself for a few scenes.
Trisha and Simbhu (who acted in the Tamil
version of the same) did a cameo. All other actors are cast appropriately.
Surekha Vani is very good.Technical departmentsStory: Men are simple and women
are complex. When it comes to love, man proposes to a woman with plain heart
and with no complications. Women, on the other hand make simple things
complicated with their complex behaviour. Gowtam Menon has beautifully explored
that point and penned a wonderful story of a simple guy who would do anything
for love and a complex girl who keeps vacillating about taking
decisions.screenplay - direction: Screenplay of the movie is very good. The
movie could end at any point after interval. It needs tremendous narrative
skills and screenplay to make people get interested in the second half because
the movie can end at the moment hero/heroine converge upon on marriage. I loved
the love episodes between Surya and Sameera Reddy (train scene) in Surya s/o of
Krishnan and wondered when he is going to make such
a story into a full-leangth feature film and Gowtam Menon answered my wish
with his next movie by filling it full of magical moments and sweet nothings.
It’s a astonishing work by Gowtam Menon. You can’t separate a moment from the
movie to be the best. This movie is like a seamless flow of visual poetry.Other
departments: Music by AR Rehman is awesome. Songs are extremely good and
background score, rerecording and mixing is perfectly done. All songs are
picturized extremely well. Cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa breath-taking.
The choice of locations and camera work blended seamlessly. Dialogues by
Anuradha are extremely natural and contemporary. Art direction by Rajeevan is
superb. Editing my Anthony is flawless. Production values by Indira Productions
are impeccable.Analysis: I had never seen such a wonderful movie that deals
with the straightforward nature of a man and complex nature of a woman so
perfectly. Everybody must have gone through
these moments in their lives and you are sure to get nostalgic watching some
moments in this movie. The entire movie is excellent and extremely engaging
except for 10 minutes (in second half from the breakup to the scene where other
female proposes him). It takes guts and tremendous conviction makes a movie
like Ye Maya Chesave from the director, producer and hero (It was Naga
Chaitanya who set this combination up). All three of them should be appreciated
for making this movie happen. Ye Maya Chesave movie should do extremely well in
multiplexes and A centers. I wish/hope/want this movie to do well in B/C
centers as well. This film has all the ingredients for a movie to remain as a
timeless classic. Go and watch it
