The USP (Unique Selling Point) of any buddy-comedy is the relatability and resonance of life that we lived and dream to live. Vaazha taps the right chords of relatable nostalgia triggering humour and the romantic dream of farming with friends.
Vaazha directed by Anand Menon and written by Vipin Das is a well-crafted B. Tech buddy comedy. We have seen many B. Tech comedies, Premam and Kiraak Party and a lot of variants of the same genre. What makes Anana Menon’s directorial standout is the complicated relationship of strict fathers and laid-back goofy sons.
Vaazha begins with one of the fathers wanting to plant a sapling of a banana tree in the backyard only to be stolen by another father. The intended metaphor is clear. The seed they might plant in the backyard might bring back them a few couple bucks of money, but the sons who we are made to believe as good-for-nothing pricks whose aim is to have a Thallumala-like chaotic fight in the midst of roasting each and every fellow with witty one-liners.
Ajo Thomas, Vishnu, Moosa, Abdul Kalam and Vivek Anand are none other than either the gang you had in your B. Tech college or it is the gang that you never had but always wanted but never gotten lucky. The humour these five fellows generate out of very generic templates is very impressive and fun to watch.
The movie takes the quick U-turn from being a silly-goofy rom-com to a serious tear-jerker by touching the most important themes that we all might already know Despite of the risk of being a preachy and emotionally exploitative tear-jerking scenes, the thematic elements of dark complexion, lazy laggards crawling to clear their arrears, parents who thrust the dream of an engineer and doctors, and also the parents who neglect the children and family for the sake of “success” and thereby the children who doesn’t know the ‘value’ of a family and responsibilities if being a family-human while running for the crazy reality of an abroad job. All these, you may know. But, still, Vaazha makes you feel again for the same things. Because? YES! Relatability.
Vaazha is now streaming on Disney Hostar.
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