Vallabha (2006) Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja Cast: Silambarasan, Nayantara, Reema Sen, Sandhya Director T R Silambarasan Director: Simbu Pro...
Vallabha (2006) Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja Cast: Silambarasan, Nayantara, Reema Sen, Sandhya Director T R Silambarasan Director: Simbu Producer: P.L.Thenappan Music Director: Yuvan Shankar Raja Cast: Simbu, Nayantara, Reema Sen, Sandhya Story: What should you do if you fall in love with a woman who is 3 years elder to you? This is the main question that Vallabha asks. It doesn’t answer it – that would be taking things too far. Simbu instead sticks to the two things he can do best – write a meaningless script, and kiss Nayantara. If any of those two reasons is compelling enough for you to watch the film, this one is for you. A dubbed version of the Tamil Diwali release Vallavan, Vallabha is the story of a man who shines in the world of Simbu’s logic. Vallabha (Simbu) is a student who hangs around with a best friend Suchi (Sandhya) and a bunch of other slack-jawed yokels who think he’s the center of the universe even if he’s their own classmate – both concepts that you find only in the movies. Like all self-respecting movie college heroes, Vallabha is waiting for that one woman who will sweep him off his feet. It happens with Swapna (Nayantara), who is unfortunately his lecturer. She is also older than him, bigger than him, and much easier to look at. What this random chopping off (done perhaps to reduce the length of the film from 185 minutes in Tamil) does is render the film completely senseless. The post-flashback bit mentions Reema plotting to end the romance between Vallabha and Swapna, but the film shows none of that, and you cannot infer anything from what you see. And after that, the way Vallabha gets Swapna to return to him, with a speech that is pantomime with you hearing only background music and seeing only his lip movement, renders the main plot payoff – how he can get Swapna to overcome the 3 year older thing – completely left out. It's like going to a watch a match and hearing X declared the winner since Y gave a walkover, without a minute of play... Less
