Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya (2010)
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya opens with the camera gently capturing the backwaters as if it is floating on the water, until it pans to a church and its insides, where we see Silambarasan’s Karthik ranting the famous dialogue, “Ulagathula evalo ponnunga irundhum, Naa yen Jessie ah love panen.” He introduces Jessie to us, as Trisha appears in a wedding costume, her beaming face covered with a netted veil. We get montages of her, as he tells us she is classy, educated, well-read, has a style of her own and is sexy too.
“If I told my mother I am going to marry her, she will happily accept. So what is the problem? She is getting married to someone else, that is the problem,” he goes on and on about his life, true love and how he first met her. “I didn’t choose Jessie. It happened to me. Ena adichidhu andha kaadhal,” he says, leaning on the gate. And we see Jessie, as she walks on an empty road, donning a blue saree and carrying a single-strap bag, before singers Blaaze and Viyay Prakash break into the AR Rahman magic, ‘Yaeennn idhayam udaithaai norungavae’ that passionately evokes our feelings. With this whole introduction sequence, we think we get to know who she is, but do we?