Why it Rains

Just came back after watching "Kadhal", a real life story of a tragic love. Apart from few scenes where the emotion had been intesified to cater to the majority movie going masses. I must confess that this is one movie where I have not been a let down by the movie after hearing great reviews about it (usually the agony of expectation does not make up for actual reality...). One factor contributing to that I feel is the absence of any big names/stars. Apart from the hero and his friend there are no familiar faces (most of the starting credits had introducing...). This probably freed the director from the customary punchlines, stereotypical jokes etc.


The story by itself is simple. Girl with a rich and powerful family falls for a poor grungy mechanic(nothing new there for the average moviegoer, but this mechanic actually manages to look convincingly grungy and never fully cleans up to be a smashing hero). The fact that the girl is still studying in 12th standard (B section Roll No. 16 if I'm not wrong which is intriguing because the heroine's name is Aishwarya...unless there were many Aashas, Aakilas, Aanamikas, Aannapooranis and Aannalakshmis ahead of her...) does not deter her father (Rich, ugly, powerful wine shop owner and local ganglord) from arranging for her marriage. Girl panics and elopes with the boy to Chennai and after a street corner marriage, find refuge among the hero's friends who set them up in a rental house.


By this time the heroines uncle (fathers younger brother who misses his left arm but still rides around in a Bullet) tracks them down and convinces them to return back to town for a fitting marriage. Which does not happen (no happy ending here folks...). The heroine is forced into another marriage, meet the crazy hero a few years (and a baby) later. Breaks down feeling guilty for leading a normal life while because of her the hero is raving mad. The husband simply accepts both of them (i.e. puts the crazy hero in a mental institution and continues his life supporting both the lovers).


Read an interview of the director who had met the husband on a train. While in school I've read "Thirukkural"s by Thiruvalluvar stating that the presence of good samaritans brings rain. Now you know why it rains.