
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa had a whole scene for it in which Jessie talks about the problems they might have to face if they fell in love, also adding the point that she needs to be interested in him first. Rarely has Tamil cinema shown women listing out reasons for not being interested in a man. Naturally, Jessie is shocked, walks away and boards her office bus. While Tamil film buffs were used to the stalking part, the casual, almost off-handed, proposal came as a surprise, not just to Jessie but to us as well. This is also when we learn that Jessie is older to him by a year. He stalks her a little and one morning he does it impulsively. Karthik does not wait too long to profess his love to Jessie. This scene is then cue to “Yaen… idhayam… udaithaai… norungave?” ('Why did you break my heart into pieces?' and Karthik does the jump across the gate. It's just Karthik and Jessie for the most part and one particular scene in it created such a “lovely” fuss, introducing many men to the idea of kissing a woman’s foot to their express love! (Who would’ve thunk?) This film has a number of positives to it. The 2010 film that was simultaneously shot in Telugu as Ye Maaya Chesave (Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu) and later remade in Hindi as Ekk Deewana Tha (Prateik Babbar and Amy Jackson) has turned 10. Yes, we’re talking about the heartbreaking tale of Karthik (Simbu) and Jessie (Trisha), from GVM’s Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, a couple which for long held the hearts of fans with their love-hate relationship. By the time Enai Noki Paayum Thota happened, most of us had lost our love for the Gautham Menon voice-over, but it was still very fresh back then.
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This film we’re referring to came at a time when we did not mind, in fact enjoyed, listening to the protagonists’s 'mind voice' - “Jessie… idhan Jessie, avlo azhagu, classy, padichava., well read, ava kita oru style iruku, and sexy too…”. For some, it might be difficult to choose between Trisha’s Jessie and Jaanu, but this is a topic for another time. Before “Romba dhooram poitiya Ram?” from the 2018 film 96 starring Trisha and Vijay Sethupathi in the lead, there was another film, also starring Trisha, that was considered to be “the” romantic film by most Tamil film fans (keeping aside Alaipayuthey, of course).
