The Dhanush starer Yaradi Nee Mohini got released in theatres last week.  There’s nothing new – just a retelling of a love story. You can’t tell a story without romance in it. Yaradi Nee Mohini is yet another boy-meets-girl story. We’ve seen it all! Just like any other movie it is

• a dark boy meeting a fair girl
• a non-english speaking boy meeting a english speaking girl
• a rural boy meeting a urban girl

Perfect, for the movie to be a “smokescreen” – presenting unrealistic dreams and desires to young people. Yaradi Nee Mohini tells the story of the hero’s struggle with his father, with his circumstance and with his dreams. Stories of the “underdog” succeeding somehow wins our hearts and minds. It is stories like these that (s)tick. Is there something we need to learn from this?

Young people are looking for significance. They are looking for security in a globalizing world that increasingly marginalizes certain groups of people. Young people are in the look out for meaning in the midst of an assault on value, personhood, meaning and imagination. Can we find a lasting solution?

To me, Yaradi Nee Mohini does more damage than help young people find solutions for existential questions.
Reviews

“It is a typical ‘Mills and Boons’ type of romance” – India Glitz

Credits

Banner: R.K. Productions PVT. LTD.
Cast: Dhanush, Nayantara, Raguvaran, Karthick, Karunas, Mano Bala, Viswanathan
Direction: Mithran R. Jawahar
Production: Dr. K. Vimalageetha
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Website: http://www.ynmthemovie.com/