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Aruvi Review


Cast: Aditi Balan, Lakshmi Gopalswami
Music: Bindhu Malini, Vedanth Bharadwaj
Direction: Arun Prabhu Purushothoman

Before the film I glimpsed at the trailer, which I generally do for every film. This normally gives me an insight of the film or what to expect? While most of the films don’t deliver what trailer promises. Aruvi  is also on similar lines, but it's other way round, exceeds your expectations. The film opens up with an investigation about Aruvi ( Aditi Balan), which reveals her past ( The details are revealed from different persons like in the movie ‘Ctizen Kane’).

As the past of Aruvi is revealed an ambiguity sets in and we seem lost at a certain point of time. But that’s what keeps us glued to the film and when everything is put together, we are into a surprise. The lengthy dialogue before the interval is brilliant and it can be called as female version of 'dialogue out of frustration' as male version is done by Sivaji in Parasakthi. ( coincidentally both these similar dialogues are from actor’s debut film)

If you think that dialogue makes Arun Prabhu Purushothaman  a brilliant writer, I would tell you another three incidents so that you can confirm that he is one. Take the trailer of the show ( Solvathellam Sathiyam) and all the problems shown are real life incidents which can be used for one full Tamil film, but the director keeps them as a passing cloud yet creates impact. The show itself is like a spoof of a real-time show, but it does not feel like a spoof as the intention is genuine and sensitive. The last thing is usage of Thalapathy (Vijay) reference (which is the most commercial aspect of film making) and that's not forceful and manages a big applause and laughter.

Aditi Balan’s performance takes this film close to everyone. There is no one scene to point out as her best as every scene is one. The songs helps to narrate the story as the lyrics justified the scenes. The film’s core is about rejection by society and how it’s narrated makes this a masterpiece.


Verdict:  Masterpiece. 
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