There are several moments where you feel absolute honesty in emotions, scenes where Esha Deol brings her bag and baggage and adjusts in Ajay Devgan’s room and tells him how she had an argument with her uncle and what farce she had played, and then they just look at each other and smirk, or let it be the sheer stupid way in which Vivek Oberoi tries to console Kareena Kapoor on the Bridge that he loves her and she replies with a simple To mai kya karu (“Then what do I do?” ) smiling and showing that she doesn’t really care, carries on walking away and he hops up the bridge railings and continues his stupidity, or a scene when Abhishek Bachchan kills, very coldly, his brother, then starts weeping on the ferry and then goes back and tells Om Puri, what he wants. All of them, in this film, fall in that category, whether it is the passionately cruel Abhishek Bachchan’s Lallan, Ajay Devgan’s witty Michael, Vivek Oberoi’s clueless-about-social-brutality and confused about his aspirations Arjun, Rani Mukherji’s painstakingly loving Shashi, Esha Deol’s confident Radhika (though she wasn’t as good as the rest), and Kareena’s bubbly Mira, each character is given appropriate space to dwell, interact, develop and affect.
Perhaps the simplest characters where logic of their actions are calculated in subconscious, are actually those characters that are highly nuanced. While it is a well known fact, Abhishek Bachchan stood amongst all, but the rest of the two are also who are actually the way they should be. Mani Ratnam’s elegance lies in crafting out raw and original and extremely simple characters, the way they really are. The film starts with zig-zagging through the scenes and core action, introducing the primary characters, then jumping into the story of the first character and then coming back to the scene, then moving on the next character and then coming back and then the third character. Those who are illiterate yet ambitious, studious and have multiple opportunities but are adamant on improving situation here and those who have everything yet they still are not sure what they really want. Yuva, is all about how youth deal with today. His craftsmanship is clearly evident in multiple scenes, which come and go, stories moving across parallel timelines. Like every other Mani Ratnam film, Yuva too set against a socio-political backdrop, is a film about relations and drama amongst them at its core. I and my whole family, my mom, dad and elder brother were sort of high on expectations and the film opened to terrible reception all round, still we all knew that it is a Mani Ratnam film and there would be ascertained substance, it would not be a hollow film. As soon as you put Mani Ratnam’s name on a film, the expectations associated with it blow out of the proportions.
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