Even the college portion which occupied only 3 minutes of the film's runtime is filled with life. Be it the shoes ( Forrest Gump inspired) that kid Surya wears while he walks along the road adorned with dry brown leaves, the Wrangler jeans which he sports during his school days, the blue and yellow striped collared t-shirt seen in the song "Yethi Yethi", Surya's hairstyles at different stages, the books stacked in Surya's room or the shot portraying Surya reading his dad's letters. The film was high on the nostalgia factor. And that's the reason Vaaranam Aayiram remains to be one of its kind. Considering the huge canvas and multi-conflict narrative, GVM pulled off his own version of 'Boyhood', something we thought would be possible only by a Mani Ratnam. The only contemporaries that follow a feebly similar pattern are Autograph (2004), Attakathi (2012) and Premam(2015) but all three of the films concentrate on the protagonist's love life at different stages. To make a film that chronicles life without an explicit 'story' is the biggest risk an Indian filmmaker can take considering the low probability of its ability to convince an audience, who is alien to such structure, that this is also what a film can look like. Apart from Forrest Gump, I found an occasional, uncanny resemblance to Tim Burton's Bigfish, another personal favourite. GVM took inspiration from Forrest Gump and the tragedy of his father's death had a major influence on him while writing. Irrespective of how small it is, every single frame and every single dialogue has a soul. The film sparkles with authenticity since it comes right from the maker's heart.
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