Wholesome Family Entertainer

From the beginning mist engulfs Sachien in almost every reel. The visuals are soft on the eyes. You can stop thinking and enjoy for the next two and a half hours. And once you have accepted this, the movie is enjoyable and a well needed relief for the movie goer. Sachien is reminiscent of movies like ‘Kaadhalika Neramilai’,not in terms of the actual storyline but in terms of it being a throw back to more innocent times. It’s a good old, clean Tamil romantic comedy. Such movies have been made in Tamil from the start of movie making here and will continue to be made for a long time to come. There is nothing novel about the storyline. Boy meets girl, boy and girl act like Tom and Jerry, boy falls in love with girl, girl doesn’t admit she loves boy first, and in the end of course the lovers unite.After ‘Minnalle’ and ‘Dum,Dum,Dum’ we haven’t had such movies for a little while so it is just the right time to have such a movie again. The 15 minutes or so with Bipasha Basu after the interval is cheap and most irritating.The movie is so simple and feel good till the intermission, and upto the conclusion after Bipasha leaves the scene, that I would suggest you take an extended break and go in 15 minutes late after the interval break is over! Genelia and Vijay make a great pair. But I would have rather seen Madhavan-Genelia or Suria-Jothika.But all things considered Vijay has done an o.k. job and this movie suggests a welcome shift in trend, in the sense that he has targeted the urban audience(Sector-A)for the first time in his career.All in all, Sachien is a movie you can sit and enjoy with your family and friends(just don’t try to find any logic in it!)