Story

A minister on his deathbed reveals to an MLA the whereabouts of billions in cash that he has stashed away. However, the minister's relatives are vexed when the MLA loses his memory in an accident.

The plot revolves around Murugan (Vishnu Vishal), a fixer for a local MLA, Jacket Janakiraman (Robo Shankar). He is in love with Archana (Nikki Galrani, decent), an intrepid girl who wants to become a cop. When her dad approached Murugan with Rs 10 lakh to make her dream come true, Murugan decides to use Janakiraman to get her the job and make her fall in love with him. Meanwhile, a minister on his deathbed reveals to the MLA the place where he has hidden Rs 500 crore. When the minister’s relative (Ravi Maria) tries to get this information from Janakiraman, the latter goes into a coma, complicating Murugan’s life as well.

A better director, someone with a penchant for comedy and inventiveness, would have run away with this material, and turned it into a laugh fest. But Ezhil is content with having just half-a-dozen comic set pieces (and the must-haves for a commercial film today — ghosts and Mottai Rajendran), that he doesn’t even try to give us more even when situations call for comedy (like the sub-plot involving Janakiraman’s rival (Naren) who tries to murder him). The best example is the climax where three groups fight to get hold of something important. The staging of this scene is so perfunctory and barely makes us smile. For contrast, think how a similar set-up in Kalakalappu was turned into a madcap moment.

The film could also have benefitted with a better leading man. Vishnu Vishal is a competent actor, but here, even though we can see his effort, we keep wishing for a performer who is a natural when it comes to comedy, someone like Sivakarthikeyan or Shiva, who would have brought in his own touches and made the scenes in which he is in amusing.