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Nayanthara: A Fairytale Too Perfect to Feel Real!

Nayanthara: A Fairytale Too Perfect to Feel Real!

Too much perfection turns a documentary into a mere tale, something similar happened with “Nayanthara Beyond the Fairytale”.
In a world where your every move has to be carefully calculated, can you actually find a moment of honesty?
Being a well known star in the film industry is tough, when where you go, with whom you go and so on and so forth is being captured in camera, it is hard to find yourself and a corner where you can truly relax by yourself.
So many actors and actresses forgot who they really were amidst the cheering of the crowd, only few could hold on to the ground.
Netflix’s “Nayanthara – Beyond the Fairytale”, at least established that she could find her own comfort zone, her “home” in Vignesh Shivan, and everything about this documentary turned movie leads to that.
Directed by Amith Krishnan, this documentary felt very staged to the audience, like the last minute wedding plan, and some shaky script and following Nayanthara’s journey from beginning to “Jawan”.
In the documentary Nayanthara says that, “Ghajni was my lowest point,” that was the time when she became the troll target, “I had no other choice” she said in the documentary.
In that moment audiences understood the vulnerabilities of a newcomer in the industry and showed her fighting with her inner anxiety and keeping it bottled up and coming out with a smiling face because that’s what a star does.
The documentary wonderfully traces her initial cinematic journey by bringing in the right people to talk about Nayanthara.
While the documentary does a good job of showing the hustle he got on her way, it doesn’t delve too much on the failed relationships of hers which always came out as a headline.
Now here the audiences objected, that if it’s a documentary then it should show all the sides good as well as bad.
But the film makers were so adamant of making it a “Fairytale”, it created a breach between the film and the audiences.
“Nayanthara: Beyond the Fairytale” is more cinema than a documentary.
Everything is sculpted to perfection. Not a single thing is out of place, and its ultimate goal was to give the audience something real to watch, not that all the feelings and emotions that are shown in the film are fake, but too much perfection made it bland. The rare moments of vulnerability really shine through.
And far more everything comes to the marriage, the tension, the tears, the very joy of it, but somehow the makers managed to make it cinematic as well.
So finally considering everything all together the two twilight birds didn’t know what was going to happen after 20 years. Probably that’s why it is called a “Fairytale”.
But it is fair to say that two people who love each other found their home together is really a good end to the happily ever after fairytale.
If you haven’t watched it yet, have a look at this fairytale, streaming only on Netflix.
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