Dishoom - of two hearts (The Review)

Cast: Jeeva, Sandhya, Nasser, Malavika
Music: Vijay Antony
Produced by: Oscar Films V Ravichandran
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues, Direction: Sasi

A rough and tough stuntman with a heart of gold. An art student girl who is more practical about life. What happens if love happens between the two? The Dishoom of these two hearts is what this movie "Dishoom" is all about.

Before saying anything, the movie had a lot of surprises for me:

1) It is just Dishoom of hearts. A stuntman's story might be expected to have half a dozen fights. But no fights for the hero, infact no villains.

2) There is no story without the hero's character. So is the movie hero centric? No... Without the heroine's character the story has no life. So is it heroine centric? No again. A beautiful story with equal scope for hero and heroine to perform.

3) After a long time, a beautifully etched heroine character in a Tamil movie. She is the new age girl without any fuss about it. Most important, she is not sentimental.

4) A soft romantic love story in an action filled backdrop. Total surprise for me expecting an action oriented movie with some love.

Bhaskar(Jeeva) meets Sindhiya(Sandhya) in an unusual meet after which they become friends. Slowly Bhaskar falls in love with Sindhiya and proposes it to her. She refuses stating a reason as she could not feel the same love as he does, and asks him time for that to happen. It happens, but the situation requires them to part ways... Will Bhaskar win his love back? The climax answers for that.

Jeeva maintains his great work in the lines of Raam. He completely fits as fighter Bhaskar with a heart of gold. Sandhya seems to have misunderstood director's words of "Unakku weight-u character ma".. She has put on a lot of weight compared to Kaadhal. Nevertheless, her portrayal of Sindhiya fills your heart...

Nasser and Malavika as Sandhya's parents have done a good job. The new comedian evokes good amount of laughter from you and eventually when he reasons out his actions, leaves you emotional too. Hats off for the decent comedy!!!

The major plus points of the film are the action sequences from Jeeva, strong dialogues and excellent camera work. Another point to mention is great music by Vijay Antony'. Especially the number "Nenjaankootil" is excellent. Also "Bhoomikku velichamellam", "Dailaamo" and "Kitta Nerungi vaadi" are good to listen to and well picturised. But still some justice could have been done with the lyrics in all songs.

Its a real tribute for all off screen heroes - the stuntmen - who play with their life for our onscreen heroes. Sasi has come up with an enjoyable romantic film as Valentine gift for Tamil Cinema viewers.