Directions to Vinnaithandi Varuvaya (VTV) climax bench scene spot @ Central Park, NYC

Directions to Vinnaithandi Varuvaya (VTV) climax bench scene spot @ Central Park, NYC

Long since I landed in Jersey City, NJ, one of the things I most desperately wanted to see and take a picture was Vinnaithandi Varuvaya movie’s climax bench scene’s shooting spot at Central Park, New York City where Simbu and Trisha had the classy chat. I'm not a SImbu fan, when I saw VTV movie the first day, I did not like the movie much, many would’ve felt the same way but it slowly started to grow in me (should be the same with many too) and now everyone talks about Karthik & Jessie, Love,  VTV...  This particular climax park bench scene has its own touch,  a calm plae, a cool chat with classy lines. This was one of the awesome scenes in the movie.

So I google’d all ways to find this place hoping someone would’ve blogged, posted, did something to give some information about the park bench, but I did not even get a single clue where this bench is located in the BIG Central Park! After wasting a week with fall season fading away (Oct 2012) and Sandy Superstorm approaching, I decided I will wait no more for it and I myself will figure it out with modern day’s best friend Google.

So I went to youtube.com, played this scene few times and just concentrated on the background. Then I went to Google maps, went in and out of Central park, still no clues. Then I played the entire park bench scene one time, right after the scene, for the song “Anbil avan …” I noticed a big grass ground with softball play area, then with a happy smile I went back to Google maps, but again the park is so BIG that it has 21 softball play areas. L

Then I started to make few guesses, I ruled out the set of play areas towards North Central Park (near 100^th St) since from the scene and song we can notice that the place where Trisha and Simbu sits is circular. So I had to guess from 13 softball play areas, I paid a visit one day and had a look at the first 5 play areas, no luck, the background buildings and trees did not match at all. Then the next day I went to the remaining  8 play areas, while I was approaching  those, I was able to see the background view matching the scene’s view, finally a happy smile started to grow, with the help of background I was able to filter out few more play ares and end with only 3 play areas.

I had the final walk on the walk path besides the play areas, I was able to see the exact background as in the scene. Now I had to locate the bench, from the camera angle the only possible benches was the 3 benches near “Great Lawn Softball Field 6”.

I played the video again in my mobile, with the camera angle and the bent fence behind Simbu (that was a good clue), I finally spotted the bench!!!  I sat there and gave the cam to my friend and asked him to shot me the exact same way as Simbu was sitting. But Trisha place was empty. :P

  

How to get there:

• From anywhere, come to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, you can take the local metro train or the bus to reach.
 
• Get down from train or bus and head into central park, and take West drive (walk path), make sure you walk in the north direction (towards 80+ streets)

• Keep walking, you will cross Delacorte Theater and then you will hit the Softball play areas.
 
• Take a right and enter into the walk path near the play areas.

• Walk towards Softball Field 6, you will see 3 benches which is between Field 6 and Field 8 (look at the map below)
 
• The first bench (from North) is the one!!! You can see thebelow note on it, just for your reference. 

 
 

Sit there, run the classy scene in mind, take pictures, have unlimited memories and enjoy!!!

 

 Map: