Lover (2024) Full Movie Download (Hindi Dubbed)
Director: Prabhu Ram Vyas
Writer: Prabhu Ram Vyas
Stars: Harini Sundararajan; Manikandan K.; Nikhila Sankar
Genres: Drama
Story: Arun and Divya’s six-year relationship starts unraveling as they drift apart, raising the question of whether love can withstand such differences.
Lover Movie Review: Prabhuram Vyas's Lover begins with Divya (Sri Gouri Priya), an IT employee, narrating the story of how she fell in love with Arun (Manikandan) to her office colleagues by the beach. Her face breaks into a smile as she recalls the moment she first met him, and the director shows us how the two hit it off and got into a serious relationship. But then a phone call breaks Divya's narration, and it's from Arun. But in an instant, the smile on her face drops. She hesitatingly picks up the call, and lies that she's at a function. Unconvinced, he starts probing, and she realises that he has caught on to her lie.... from a pic that her friend has shared on social media. And the furious Arun confronts her later at her apartment. They fight. She pleads with him, berates him for drinking, and threatens to walk out. He screams, gaslights her, and then says sorry a lot. They make up.
Throughout Lover, Prabhuram Vyas gives us variations of this opening scene — the fighting, the drinking, the gaslighting, the warning, the apologising, the patching up — and keeps us engaged with the push and pull of this relationship that's at crossroads. Can these two lovers — a young woman who wants to be independent and a boyfriend who is insecure and possessive — manage to remain together? We see that they both care about each other, but is there a breaking point to this relationship?
Prabhuram Vyas narrates this story without any artifice (and glorification), aided by his cinematographer Shreyaas Krishna's understated visuals that add realism and composer Sean Roldan's evocative songs that effectively underline the mood of the scenes. And in Manikandan and Sri Gouri Priya, he has two actors who add flesh and blood to his lead characters with their truthful performances.
The writing tries to be truthful, reflecting the mindset of contemporary 20-somethings when it comes to relationships. We see this in Divya, who, as much as she loves Arun, has to make decisions that preserve her identity, even if they have to be done at great cost. We see this in her friends, who want to protect her and be there for her, but also let her make her own decisions. We see this in Madan (Kanna Ravi), Divya's new teammate, who finds himself drawn into a clash between two lovers. We also see this in Arun, who, for all his flaws, which are mainly the result of growing up in a broken family, realise the error of his ways and turn over a new leaf.
The sub-plot involving Arun's parents (Saravanan and Geetha Kailasam) not only helps humanise Arun's nature, but also shows how even older adults are all at sea when it comes to dealing with relationship issues.
After a very engaging first half, the narrative does become stagnant for a while in the second half, but even these moments are packed with emotional highs, like Divya's heartbreaking apology to Arun's mom, or her friend Suhail's (Harish Kumar) throwaway line when Arun tells him that he fiercely loves her, or the scene when Divya finally decides what has to be done. We see that she knows stating something might instantly make Arun realise the error of his ways, but also sense that she's been putting it off as she doesn't want to hurt him, and knows there's no going back for either of them once she's said that. It's a testament to the writing and performances that the director makes this moment poignant,
bittersweet and quietly affecting, all at once.