Vaanam Kottattum

Boasting a star-studded cast that includes real-life couple, Sarathkumar and Radhika, the movie feels more like a TV drama than a feature film. The movie does feature touches of Mani Ratnam-ness (the movie is produced by Mani Ratnam and directed by his assistant, Dhana) in it's minimalistic approach towards dialogues and a simple plotline.

I am of the opinion that the movie's core discusses areas such as the importance of good upbringing, parental guidance and acceptance. Or maybe, I'd assume this is what the director was going for. Sadly, these core themes never get translated to the screenplay and it leaves much to be desired.

The biggest drawback of the film also comes in the fact that the director has chosen to over-complicate a simple narrative. Too many sub-plots featuring the other characters makes the film messy and none of the lead characters have an interesting arc for the audience to feel invested upon.

Technically a strong film, the music department also features debut music director and famous singer, Sid Sriram, scoring the songs and BGM of the film. Take nothing away from this guy's amazing singing capabilities, but the background score of the film was often too loud and could have been more mellow to allow some breathing space for the onscreen happenings.

All in, Vaanam Kottattum is not entirely a bad movie at all; it's an average, uninspiring film with sprinkles of family values and drama woven along the way. Watchable on a lazy Sunday afternoon at home after a heavy lunch.

Good Movie. Everybody acted very well in the movie. This movie is one of the best Movie of R.Sarathkumar, Raadhika Sarath Kumar and Vikram Prabhu. The movie had a good story. Songs and BGM in the movie were main disadvantage it affected the movie flow. Some characterisations in the movie were not good. The climax in the movie was not believable. Good Movie.

Sid Sriram's song is best in the movie. All have given their great performance. Story is too slow to watch. Scenes are good but most of them just drag the movie time.

It's a watchable movie. Unfortunately, had big thoughts before watching it because of the name of Mr. Manirathnam.

Good things: Sarath Kumar & Raadhika's emotional/sentimental scenes The youths/friends street roaming scenes with a neat & quick triangular love story Brother - Sister chasing - fighting - business dealing scenes A bit dynamic scenes overall and had a flavor of watching Mani Rathnam's film All the characters' performances were good

Bad things: No good/core plot No good screenplay Although the music was good, Sid Sriram roaring the background throughout the film seemed a bit irritating Except for the villain, nobody else seemed to have a strong motivation

Overall, it could've been made in a much better way with just a few tweaks like adding some twists & turns and fastening up the screenplay based upon a core/good plot.