Ravi T

A must watch! The writing is so brilliant that it makes you laugh, cry, feel inspired all in the same scene! The performances are amazingly nuanced by the leading trio. The music is outstanding especially both versions of the title track. You simply shouldn't miss this one and repeat watch every once in a while, it's that good!

Highly real and uncomfortable without hitting it hard, that's the triumph of this film. It makes you realise that do you have to just be good and non discriminatory or do you have to do a lot more to blur the class divides in our society. Both the lead actors add flair to their characters but it is the characters that we wish were a lot more fleshed out. Somewhere in the whole focus on everyday chores like opening doors and removing slippers the characters appear one dimensional. All good, always good never a hint of anything otherwise. The movie starts where Ashwin leaves someone at the altar as he is not the clingy boyfriend romantic kinds so it is an irony to see him fall for a girl who is whole lot different and he certainly doesn't seem the right guy for her either. The movie seems biased towards showing the points on how this could be a normal relationship in spite of the class divide, however, what happens once the leads have gone through the sugary love phase? Will they have wavelengths that would match, can the highly educated rich boy have enough to talk to the uneducated maid for a lifetime especially post the phase when he is not low or recuperating from a break-up? Will the attraction still last even after the honeymoon period? Why is Ratna so one dimensional that the thought of a better life with comforts sounds selfish if it comes through by loving her employer? Sir reduces the glossy taint of a typical Bollywood film but may have fallen short of going the whole way and exploring all possibilities and nuances that Ashwin and Ratna's story demanded.