His gait, eyes, even his slight smile arrests you. He adds another inspired performance to his extraordinary repertoire. Both Ram and Janu is never vocal about their love, they don’t argue for silly reasons, there is no breakup, intimate scenes, rebound, and ego trip but still, they express pure love, feel for each other and makes us root for them. The visuals are glossy but it doesn’t overshadow the expressions of the characters, 96 is an unadulterated, mature love story. Janu is now married and settled down in Singapore.įrom the first frame to the last, the film arrests us with the varied emotions of the characters. Ram walks down the memory lane and spends a whole night with Janu, talking about the past and the situations that they went through in life. Two months later, all the ’96 batch students meet in Chennai for a reunion where Ram gets to meet his childhood love Janu (Trisha). Obliging the request of the watchman, Ram calls his school friend (Bagavathi Perumal) who adds him to the WhatsApp group of their schoolmates.Ĭhekka Chivantha Vaanam review: All about family feud, greed, thirst for power and revenge! | DevaDas review: An interesting first-half | Pataakha review: Fire-cracker performances light up the screen He is smitten by the smell of Tanjore soil, his school building, and the old watchman (Janakaraj).
Ramachandran aka Ram (Vijay Sethupathi) is a travel photographer who comes back to his hometown. so it will surely strike a chord among the audiences.The unseen hero of this delicious love story is writer-director C Premkumar who pulls off a near perfect script. Most of the love stories that bloom in school days never ends up in marriage and 96 doesn’t have any cinematic cliches. 96 is a charming, old-fashioned love story that takes us back to the nostalgic school days.