The Tamil 'White nights'

Much hullabaloo was created over Saawariya, the much hyped remake of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Russian short story 'White nights'. Earlier to this movie was a humble Tamil silver screen offering to the masses called 'Iyarkai' or when translated 'Nature'.

I love watching this movie for it's simplicity. The hero's candid confessions of love for a girl who he knows is not in a position to return it, his efforts to find the lost love of her life and his walking away in the end, though knowing he may not ever fall in love again but content to watch her smile and dance in the arms of her first love - all leaves a lasting impression on the mind of love found and lost again.

The lives of men at sea, their dreams of someone waiting for them at some special shore somewhere and all the ups and downs of love plus the heartache of having to walk away when one could have had it all makes this movie an unforgettable experience - a sort of modern Romeo and Juliet where no one dies in the end, but when the credits have rolled, you think to yourself as you dash off the sudden tears the last scene has brought to your eyes, 'it's sad - but in the end that's how some things are meant to be!'

Amma hates the ending - but I think it is perfect. Most people who fall in love are cowards - they give up their love for lack of courage to stand upto society or fear of someone. I think the movie portrayed the hero as an ordinary man with extraordinary strength and courage - the strength to walk away for the right reason. How many lovers can do that anyway?