Kaatru Veliyidai opens with scenes of fighting between the Indian and Pakistani army. We see a pilot, Varun aka VC (Karthi), being captured by the Pakistani army. But very soon, we realise that this is a film about the battle between two hearts — in other words, not Roja!
We are introduced to Leela (Aditi Rao Hydari), a doctor. Their very first meeting involves her treating him after he is seriously injured in an accident. Upon recovery, VC asks Leela out and it is during their date above the clouds that he realises that it isn’t really chance that has brought them together. And even though the two are truly and madly in love with each other, they realise that their relationship might not work because they are polar opposites.
Like his father, he is dominating and self-centred (more than one character remarks how VC is in love with himself); she is sweet-natured and with a modicum of self-respect. “Rani madhiri nadathura illa keela pottu midhikka,” she complains to him in one scene, making it clear that she expects “equal relationship”. Even their professions are at odds — he has to kill in the name of duty, hers involve saving lives (“Irulum oliyum”, as VC puts it). In such a scenario, does this relationship have a future?
( 2.5 / 5 )