what a movie, i m impressed!! i had watched the movie long time back but somehow watching it now poked me to write something about it.. Take a bow mani sir & his able team.. Not frequently one gets to witness such tight screenplay & stellar acts by the main & the supporting cast.. And it really is difficult to point out the best of them.. such is the direction accorded.. Tight screenplay, edge of the seat narration , acting, action sequences & still fresh music by rehman sir, keep the spectator stuck to his/her seat. told in flashbacks, another deviation from the leak, this flick winds together stories of three different couples to a common point & takes forward.All three tales are good, excellently detailed & acted upon.. Such is the brilliance exhibited that one can not really single out a particular one, but still abhishek's was the best.. Though ajay as usual was at his cunning best.. Abhishek's was best as he has not performed that well till now.. special mention of the lady love portrayed by rani, she oozes liveliness in her role & gives it her bindaas touch.. Ajay gets to vocalize some good lines but he walks away effortlessly, a tailor made act for him.. Vivek as a flirt,suits the role well & his romantic angle 7 metamorphosis into a serious guy, is laudable too... Not to forget the supporting cast, especially the versatile om puri, enthralling with his shrewd, bad politics & some nicely done Bengali diction.. But what keeps the the three stories together is the sheer excellent music & background score by the maestro himself, one which is still hummable & feels new & fresh, guess even after 15 years..Such is the novelty factor associated with the tunes, ones still popular in discotheques.. In all, a great piece of work. thank you mani sir.

*A very minor spoiler revealed just to praise the action by the lead actor.*Magic means Mani Ratnam. Each and every work by Mani Ratnam is ravishing - be it Dil Se, Roja or Kannathil Muthamittal. Yuva is just another title in his lustrous list of films.Three stories are connected by a road accident that features four times in the film from different angles. We are given a confusing outsight of the accident the first time and then as the flashbacks of each character are etched, the accident unveils completely towards the last time. Editor A. Sreekar Prasad deserves full marks for his awesome work, especially during the accident and the finale.Story takes a backseat in this exquisite character-driven film that has an adroit screenplay by the talented Ratnam. Art direction by Sabu Cyril follows every minute detail to an extent that every character is given a distinct mood and color. Ravi K. Chandran (cinematographer) complements Cyril well.The theme by itself may not appeal to everyone. Student politics is a dry subject and the last one would think of to tackle in a two and three quarter hours film but Ratnam churns out a screenplay which keeps you hooked far more than recent suspense films. He takes his time to set up the background of the stories but that done once, he intertwines them to give a cocktail of moods, actions, each of which is justifiable, thanks to the strong character sketches. Apart from the technical excellence, the film has strong performances.Rani Mukherji is supremely efficient in her limited screen time. Her daunting eyes full of wrath and helplessness haunt you till much after the culmination. The vulnerability portrayed is preeminent. National award winning actor Ajay Devgn is slightly old for his role but does his job as the overshadowed protagonist well. Esha Deol looks pretty and camouflages her bad dialogue delivery. Kareena Kapoor is very much her fairy-like girl-next-door character. She oozes energy in each of her scene and is a breath of fresh air. She, however, appears less after her flashback. Vivek Oberoi is completely opposite to Company and transitions well from his cool-dude attitude to the more serious, ambitious student leader. Om Puri dominates every frame he is in with his typical Bangla accent, eccentric, eerie looks and the cunning character within. Saving the best for last - Abhishek Bacchan. Lallan Singh is the most exciting character he has ever played and the ease with which he fits it is commendable. The lovely, charming husband to Mukherjee or the rugged goon of the gali, Bacchan excels in his complex, multi-dimensional personality which goes after not-so-good jobs for a good living. His outrage at Mukherji when she aborts his child is beyond the describable limits (now that's Ratnam)!The gunshots, fights, dialogues are very rustic, raw and real (barring the final fight which is a masterpiece by different standards). Ratnam adds the right amount of light scenes amidst the high octane screenplay. The third flashback is not strongly related to the other two stories but as mentioned earlier, it is a breath of fresh air and a treat to watch the spontaneous Kareena. Music by Rahman is good but the lyrics are stolid. "Dhakka Laga Bukka, Khayega Re Mukka" makes no sense and is the weakest of all the songs. How one wishes that the classy background was included in the album. Ratnam, nevertheless, integrates the songs well into the film.Vijay Raaz, Saurabh Shukla, Anant Nag and the bunch of supporting actors enact their parts well. On the whole, Yuva is an intelligent film, not to be judged by its box office performance. The Tamil counterpart, Aaytha Ezhuthu, is equally mesmerizing and it is extremely difficult to choose the better of the two. Yuva's excellence is much ahead of times. Not even in 2012, eight years later, do you come across such films quite oft.

I loved the way the movie was made even though many people made a hue and cry of lifting from am-ores pères...well i was lucky to watch both in a cinema hall and I couldn't sit the whole movie (am-ores..) I watched yuva (actually ayutha ezhuthu) twice! I still don't understand why many did not like it. The movie starts to sample 3 different life styles out of which two of them are quite true. The third one is the hero which can be seen as an element missing from the real world. Some one who can inspire thousands and bring about a revolutionary change. The idea of course must have been to portray the youth as the missing element and they must understand how the world would move unless they do something about it.

Concept of movie is genuine. No doubt AB's baby came to an age in this movie. Abhishek has loads of confidence in the movie. Ajay, Vivek are fantastic in the movie. Rani her usual best. I liked specially Kareena Kapoor in the movie..she is fabulous in that romantic pair with Vivek..witty pair..liked to see them together. Story begins with 3 different characters of Abhishek (Lallan), Ajay(Micheal) and Vivek (Arjun). Michael, Arjun and Lallan, three men from three different strata's of society, cross paths one morning in Calcutta and change one another's lives forever. Sometimes movie do feel losing his track but its worth watching!