Director Jeeva Shankar had his reasserted his statement that ‘Amara Kaaviyam’ would be such a blissful film to the present generation with so much of emotions and poignance. The film is produced by Arya under the banner of The Show People with Arya’s younger brother Sathya and Malayalam actress Mia George playing the lead roles. The musical score by Ghibran was already a fantabulous hit.
The film opens in Coimbatore with Jeeva (Sathya) taken from prison to court in charge of some serious case and as the travel begins, he takes a memory down the lane of what happened before a year. The year is 1988 and we find Jeeva and a beautiful girl in his classroom (Mia George) falling in love with each other, which lets their classmate Balaji with more wrath. As their commencement of relationship begins, there are so many hurdles they need to come across. The film encompasses around their love and afflictions that leads to a shocking climax.
Getting back to the statement of Jeeva Shankar that Amara Kaaviyam would be a film of emotions and poignance, we can take the word ‘Emotions’ and they dominate a lot, but poignance goes missing. For the complete first half, we keep hearing the words ‘I LOVE YOU’ and the peck of each others’ cheeks as the main element. Yes, there are certain emotional scenes, where Sathya opens up on his dark past of his father being forgotten and he presents his girlfriend with ‘Mangal Suthra’ (Thaali) to her. These aspects are so much compelling. It’s a new changeover of projecting a step-father in cinema and yes, the actor has done a remarkable job of standing by his step-son amidst so many troubles. Quite inspiring as well… Mia George pumps up an extremely spellbinding performance with her emoting skills. The penultimate scene before climax where she is wedged emotionally between her family and lover deserves a ton of appreciation to her performance and she leaves us speechless in climax with her words and action ‘I want to be your wife at least for a day’.
There are little drawbacks in the film like screenplay that remains non-engaging in many parts. The story has an exceptional depth and if narrated with more engrossing aspects with trimmed duration, it would be an unconventional showpiece. Sathya looks little odd for this role though he tries to magnetise us towards his presence. Thambi Ramaiah is completely wasted and Ananth Nag earns our wrath for his antagonistic approach. Yes, that’s the result called success and this guy can go ahead making some good roles in future.
If not for Ghibran, many scenes would be a call for deletion. Even the scenes that doesn’t carry substantiality, his background score creates a magic and almost all the songs, especially the one crooned by Chitra ‘Mounam Pesum’ has a wonder picturing. Jeeva Shankar takes a rank above as a cinematographer than the director of ‘Amara Kaaviyam’.
Amara Kaaviyam embellishes some cute moments of love, lets us lament over the past of being oppressed on first love, but when it comes as a whole, it could have been more engaging as worthy as the film’s climax.
Verdict: A different love story that soothes and shocks you.