Early 90s (a.k.a Director Kathir’s love): Hero stalks his love. He stalks…stalks…stalks…and is afraid to express his love. Instead he clarifies with everyone around him expect his love. Finally in the climax something happens. Mostly the heroine accepts our protagonist’s love or there is a twist to his love (very rarely). In the due process, you will notice scenes in which a bunch of friends accompany our protagonist and our hero also dreams duets (some in exotic locations - in accordance with the budget of the Film Producer). Movies: Idayam, “Love Today” etc.
Mid 90s (a.k.a Director Agathiyan’s Love): The hero and heroine begin to correspond with each other over postal mail (mind you, they have never seen each other before). They share their emotions over a piece of A4 sheet. Many a times their direct encounters go wrong (for no reason of theirs). Eventually, they are united in the Climax. Movies: “Kadhal Kottai”, “Kaalamellam Kathal Vaazhga”
Late 90s (a.ka. Mani Ratnam’s Love): Our protagonist (mostly the hero) is kind of upbeat and urban. Falls in love at the first sight. When in comes to meeting his love, his dialogue is “I told my Parents that I like you, not that you like me”. There is an interesting and simple computational algorithm to figure out the exact lat,long coordinates of his Love’s residence (considering the fact that Google was a Startup at that time and GMaps or its API weren’t available). In the climax, the usual formula of “all is well that ends well” prevails. Movie: Alaipayuthey
The millenium (a.k.a Gautham Menon’s Love): Mr. Urban falls in love with Ms. Urban at first sight. Proposes immediately and gets the expected rejection as reply. Romantically swears that he will win over his Love and does it in the Climax (with few twist and turns). Noticeably, a family member of our protagonist (usually the hero) is a constant supporter of our hero’s activities. Be it the “Suppuni” Thatha or “The Daddy”, there is someone to tell our sagging hero that he should always follow his heart. Even our hero’s mother motivates him with a cup of Bournvita (this is cooked up though). Movies: Minnale, “Vaaranam Aayiram”.
Selvaraghavan’s Love: Our protagonist is usually the boy next-door type but possesses the strength of “An Angry Elephant” (no, not that Vaaranam Onnu). He is usually the type that doesn’t fall in love at the first sight. Much contrary to the Gautham Menon’s protagonist, this hero takes his own sweet time. Much like the subclass Hirudinea. The heroine repels him and rejects him. In spite of several diatribes, our hero is as callous as a buffalo. Still pursues…pursues…pursues…until the heroine relents and accepts our protagonist’s love. Selvaraghavan’s protagonists fall somewhere between a emotive type and psychopath type. Movies: Kadhal Kondaen, 7GRC.
So, if you ever love somebody tell them so! It doesn’t require that you should have communicated over a decade through e-mail or carried a guitar or hanged precariously from an over-crowded passenger bus. Every relationship has its own fuckups. Learn to live with it and carry on with your life! If not, enroll in Vadivelu’s “Varuthappadatha Valibar Sangam” (வருத்தப்படாத வாலிபர் சங்கம்).
Alter-ego says: என்னைய வச்சு காமெடி கீமடி பன்னலே ல?!