After a long time .. I really felt good watching a refreshing movie .. with a simple story and told in perfect way with exact situations as we see in real life ..
Raaman theDiya seethai, is a simple story of a man , Venu, played by Cheran and his travels and travails he faces in finding a bride for himself. The movie opens with a mentally retarded boy in a mental rehab asylum, getting treated, its after a few minutes we are revealed that it was actually the character played by Cheran, who was inside the asylum, due to acute stress which he faces mental exertion during his school days and gets admitted to the rehab to get treated. He comes out completely cured but for a small stammering problem, which he does whenever he is under stress or exertion, this is revealed as he tells his story to the first 'bride-to-be' Ranjita(Vimala Raman), and but natually she rejects him as she feels odd about his past.
Thus starts the story of a man, a very simple one, with a pure heart, a 'Raaman' in short in search of his life partner, his seethai, who will understand him well and feels that must know about his past before taking a decision on their combined future. So, the first he does when he meets a prospective bride, is to give his certificates, informing her his studious boyhood and then tells her that he had got treated for 8 months in a mental rehab. The director ( actually a director-duo, Cheran and Jeganji), then informs us that he is being rejected by umpteen number of prospective brides when they come to know about his past.
Everything seems as usual for Venu, brides keeping rejecting him but for one girl, Vidya played by Ramya Nabeesan, accepts him and the marriage preps go on. But on the marriage day, she elopes away with her lover leaving Venu devastated. Vidya's dad, Manikyavel, played by Manivannan, feels sad for Venu and takes up the moral responsibility of finding a bride for Venu.
One day after this incident he meets Nedumaran, played by Pasupathy, who infuses new hope into Venu by telling his own story, that how he being a blind man, is a confident husband, father, and works in a FM station and leads a happy life.
Then one day, Venu goes to Nagercoil along with Manikyavel, the same place where he met his alliance, to see another bride. When he is roaming the streets in nagercoil, he chances upon to see Vidya, but now she isnt rich as she used to be, but lives in a small house, her husband jailed, and she is pregnant too with her first child and doesnt have the money for the delivery. Venu helps her without informing her father who is right there in the same city. Here, again he accidentally chances upon Ranjita, who works in a hospital.
We are then introduced to Gayathri, played by Karthika, the girl for whom he came to see in nagercoil and her story, a very hilarious one, where Nithin Satya makes a refreshing mark!!
The rest of the story is who will finally Venu marry.
Speaking about casting, Author-backed role for Cheran, flawlessly essays the role meant for him. Pasupathy, as a blind man working as a RJ goes into the role very well, making all the facial expressions as made by a blind man and use his previous real life experience for the RJ role. Nithin Satya is truely one we have to look out for, plays his role of a thief and then a reformed thief with utmost ease. His body language is just perfect for his role. All the ladies in the story, though have a strong effect on the story, doesnt make much on the screen. We surely can see few of them, or most of them slowly grow into main stream actresses. Direction by Cheran-Jeganji combo is very good. But we can surely make out which portions of the movie was shot by Cheran, with his trademark sentimental handling and the part which was handled by Jeganji, infusing comic relief, like the Nithin Sathya part to the other very 'Cheran' movie.
All in all a very good family entertainer.
Rating 4 out of 5
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