A montage of shots amidst falling maple leaves (in Chennai!!) Later we realise that the couple have started dating and he says вЂњI love you,вЂќ to her, even before they get physically intimate (i.e., before the girl suggests that вЂњthey have a go at each otherвЂќ). He blames it on a вЂvibeвЂ™, a certain cosmic вЂconnectionвЂ™ (that is unfathomable to you and me) that he felt when she opened the door and entered his studio. In Guitar Kambi, the hero is floored by the heroine even before he has a conversation with her or hears her sing. They know that it must not be flung around casually or used flippantly. They know that it is a loaded word and comes with the greater responsibility of commitment. But a little observation will tell you that if anything, todayвЂ™s young are more scared than ever to use the word вЂloveвЂ™. And then you wonder even more if maybe only your relationship has transmogrified into morning goo and nightclothes while others are basking in the picture-perfect euphoria of romance. Every character is more in love with the concept of love than their partner. ItвЂ™s always about the earth shattering, heart fluttering phase of love, only that it never seems to phase out but continues through the supposed arc and timeline of the relationship.

The leads (Suriya and Prayaga Martin) are perpetually stuck in the honeymoon phase of love - the butterflies in the stomach and debilitating head rushes. Guitar Kambi has the same signature style of romance that we have seen in almost all GVM films.

Almost every film from the GVM house seems like a dГ©jГ vu of the one before and the one next. Reality has a way of ruining life, you see. But it is also possible to grow weary of these moments, especially when itвЂ™s overdone and they hardly resemble life. The film is a slice of a life account of a musician played by Suriya who falls in love and out of it and grows up to narrate it as an incident that shaped / inspired his life.ДЇair enough. GVMвЂ™s film titled Guitar Kambi Mele Nindu, a reference to love tugging heart strings, showcases the rasa s hringara or love. Navarasa is a 9-part series, with each short chronicling a rasa or emotion. Gautham Vasudev Menon or GVM as he is popularly called and known for his signature romance tracks, has dished out yet another fare in the recent Netflix anthology series, Navarasa. A world that is all about the holy trinity of vibes, connections, and romantic love. At this point while you wonder, вЂњWho talks like this in real life?вЂќ and decide to pinch yourself awake, you hear CUT!! Oh well it was a film shoot and you were drowning in the romantic ocean that is Gautham MenonвЂ™s cine verse. He ends it with an open declaration of his love for her, peppering it with a generous dose of how his love is one of a kind, eternal, and a vivid description of how it turned his insides out and tossed his world upside down. As you sit admiring the visceral perfection of the scene, the guy drops on his knees, pulls out his guitar and starts singing paeans about the womanвЂ™s beauty. Her hair billows in the wind, and the glint of her nose stud and dark kohl rimmed eyes grab your attention. She sits daintily, in a boho ethnic attire, a cotton sari thrown casually but perfectly over her shoulder and matched with chunky silver jewellery. The guy sips coffee from a blue pottery cup while making intense eye contact with the woman across and you hear snatches of their staccato conversation that almost sounds like whispers. You spot a couple sitting at the same restaurant, against the backdrop of stone cladding, wooden furniture and lissom plants writhing in between. Imagine you are sitting in a restaurant and waiting for a friend.

Vaaranam aayiram love propose scene