"Yaarukku Yaaro", post-mortem report

After watching the 'Sam Anderson' video on youtube (Don't click me), my roomate, Vamsee and I mulled over watching the movie. After making a pact that we will give each other company till the end of the movie, we started our tortuous journey through 'Yaarukku Yaro'. We might have missed a heart beat but not a scene and we also religiously screamed for 'repeat', to which our operator Brat promptly obliged. Well, he had no choice.


Vicious Plot:

The movie obviously revolves around David (Sam) who is an automobile engineer. He has designs of concept cars ("chinna model car") and goes around asking people to fund his new car company. At the beginning of the movie, he is portrayed as a focussed, ambitious young man. Any pretty woman's man. When asked to show models and designs of his car , he pulls out a chart that has the painting of a car, just like the ones we used to sketch as kids - Ambassador
was my favorite car. The hero and I share the same eye at this (32:40).

He meets his lady love, praDeebha in weird circumstances (actually normal circumstances in Indian movies). As can be expected, love blossoms but unlike in Vijay's movies, its slow and natural. And then there are the cheesy dialogues, duet songs and running around trees. Out of the blue, his ex-girlfriend (Manjula AKA Manju) lands up from Canada (pronounced more like Kannada) with a job offer for him at her work place and hell breaks lose. Deebha learns about his relationship with Manju when they are holding hands and singing a duet in their dreams.

The rest of the movie focuses on how his mind wavers between the 2 women. He loses sight of his ambitions and almost forgets his dream of building concept cars that will apparently flourish in the Indian market or so he claims. The heroines juggle with him like clowns with colored balls. When I say colored balls, I'm not talking in dirty double meanings here. Our Sam/David/Davit actually wears wonderful bright Red and Yellow shirts. Ah, don't miss his brown t-shirt in one of the songs.

Anyway, in the last 20 minutes or so of the movie, he tries his luck with both the women to see if at least one of them would accept his love. In one of the scenes, Manju berates him because he betrayed her and fell in love with Deebha. Just one dialogue from Dave changes her mood and she's all over him. If only wooing women was this easy!!! And that this happens not just once but many times over, almost like alternate scenes once, is a clear indication that the director is out of ideas and is in an infinite loop. So press Ctrl+brk please. When the movie reaches this part, he doesn't even know what designing cars is all about and there is not one mention about it. The climax is left for you to find out. Don't waste time watching the entire movie. Directly scroll to the end.

Highlight'O highlight
For me the highlight of the movie was when he goes to the Deebha's father (a car dealer) asking for money. When he says he doesn't see future in this project, the hero stays calm, walks around the office and points at a poster on the wall and asks, "Could you please give this to me" to which the car dealer replies, "That's not possible. It is the poster of a car to be soon released in India. Customers see this ONE poster and decide to buy the car". Guess what that car is???
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It is a Ferrari F50 !!!!!!! Yes, you heard it right, A Ferrari F50.

Other highlights:

1. One of the BGM's used in the film is inspired from 'Sivaji'. Actually it is the same music. So that accounts to copyright infringement.
2. The norm of the movie is when someone says "I don't understand what you said" or "What did you say?", you say the same dialogue again.
3. Deebha's mom thanks God cos he was the one who sent our hero at the scene of the crime. I beg to differ. If He hadn't done that, we would not have had the movie. Great!!!
4. Oooh..what crime are we talking about?? Local goondas snatch her chain. Dave chases but fails to retrieve the chain back and then fixes Deebha's scooty tire puncture. Love blossoms.
5. 2 women in love with Sam Anderson. In the world that we are, where we crib about Kamal getting all the women in his movies, this is way too much. I'm sure you can empathize with me on this one.
6. Dave sings the same song with both Deebha and Manjula AKA Manju on 2 different occasions for lack of new tunes and lyrics but wait... the dance steps are different.
7. It is for sure that the choreographer has a fetish for trees, plants and anything green. This time it is a Areca palm tree (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens). I would be a little harsh and say they molest the plant.
8. Almost forgot to mention, his car is called 'DD2007' - David Deebha 2007.

Positives in the movie:
The 2nd heroine actually looks good in a few scenes unlike ALL the other characters in the movies.
The movie is only 2hrs long. Director is a trend setter.
Not many close up shots.

My Verdict:
This movie has all the elements we desire. If I were to put it on terms with Akai and Takai (smuggled products with similar sounding names), this movie has disgusting actors like Camal and Fhriya, utter nonsense dialogs by Crazy Vaughn, music composed by a AR.Raghuman, dance choreographed by praphu/Warrence followed by the rest of the crew. I'm sure this movie will be a hit in the 'Claremont Centre' and will have repeat audiences from Seattle and Sunnyvale editions of Claremont Vetti.

You can watch the movie. After the 1st 10 min, you will anyway go emotionally numb with the nonsensical dialogues and scenes and wouldn't mind the rest. If the movie plot is close to your own life story, then I will say with conviction your life is not worth living. Contact me for suicidal ideas.

The entire crew that worked on this movie is new. If they get another shot at making movies, only the public is to be blamed. Please do not write any positive comments on the movie. They might think we actually like the movie and start making more.

And for heavens sake, do not compare TR with this jerk. I accept TR is funny as hell, but give credit to his abilities. He can act. Just that he over acts. I do not wish to use abusive words here, but this guy has no clue what acting is about. I am wondering what a sex scene would have been like in the movie. eeeekss!!!!

I have a feeling this movie was made to shell out the producer's black money. Thankfully, this movie will not make it big except on youtube.

It is because of movies of this kind, that tamil film industry is seen as not equal to Bollywood inspite of the fact that we have better actors and technicians. Hope our people will learn to make meaningful movies and not utter crap.

God save the world!!!

Cheers,
Umashankar

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