Thanks for reading Yesterday I went to see...! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. A seemingly nothing shot in Prabhuram Vyas’s Lover concedes everything about Arun (Manikandan), the obsessive, self-unaware, emotionally stunted, lovelorn man with several failings. His girlfriend Divya (Sri Gouri Priya) reluctantly invites him to her birthday party. He reluctantly decides to attend. She feels the six-year relationship has run its course while he is here to salvage a broken bond. He arrives at her place in his modest scooter with no rear-view mirrors, so he turns to the two-wheeler parked next to it and uses its mirror to check his face and do his hair. It might be unintentional, but somehow appropriate that Arun’s scooter has no mirrors (maybe his mother who’s learning to drive has broken it). He fails to reflect on his past actions, unwilling to turn around and check his behavior. Arun travels in life with blinkers on, a vapid desire to be the main character in every situation but without the cojones to summon the energy. He is stationary even in motion, ignoring people in its wake and propelled by a relentless self-pitying soul.
On Prabhuram Vyas's Lover
On Prabhuram Vyas's Lover
On Prabhuram Vyas's Lover
Thanks for reading Yesterday I went to see...! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. A seemingly nothing shot in Prabhuram Vyas’s Lover concedes everything about Arun (Manikandan), the obsessive, self-unaware, emotionally stunted, lovelorn man with several failings. His girlfriend Divya (Sri Gouri Priya) reluctantly invites him to her birthday party. He reluctantly decides to attend. She feels the six-year relationship has run its course while he is here to salvage a broken bond. He arrives at her place in his modest scooter with no rear-view mirrors, so he turns to the two-wheeler parked next to it and uses its mirror to check his face and do his hair. It might be unintentional, but somehow appropriate that Arun’s scooter has no mirrors (maybe his mother who’s learning to drive has broken it). He fails to reflect on his past actions, unwilling to turn around and check his behavior. Arun travels in life with blinkers on, a vapid desire to be the main character in every situation but without the cojones to summon the energy. He is stationary even in motion, ignoring people in its wake and propelled by a relentless self-pitying soul.