A neat and unpretentious rom-com

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- AKSHAY KUMAR

ILMMAKERS who usually provide a hat tip to another filmmaker subscribe to the ideas of the directors they are inspired by. But Sarang Thiagu’s Aaromaley is an evolution from dreamy ideas of life and love flirted with in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s films, to the realities of the same. This refreshing take on romance is breezy and neatly packaged.

Aaromaley begins with Ajith (Kishen Das) and his friend Sachin (Harshath Khan) at a church to crash the wedding of the former’s crush. What follows is a madcap sequence, with Ajith and Sachin getting beaten up and imprisoned for causing a nuisance. Silambarasan TR’s voiceover attributes Ajith’s immature opinion about love to his taste in films (including Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa). What happens to the zany Ajith when he is confronted by love that is totally stripped of his confetti imagination, and how he reacts to it forms the crux of Aaromaley.