Story

Two people with dreams swap places accidentally by fate and their common key to get back their lost life is to defeat the antagonist through the girl whom he wants dead since she can foresee the future.

‘Yatchan’ is a multi-starrer not just because of its lead heroes, but it has other prominent actors playing important roles too, Thambi Ramiah fill the comedy space through the first half as he tries to convince Arya in plotting a bloody murder, RJ Balaji as the desperate Romeo slash rowdy, his role sends you in laughs, the talented Adhil Hussain makes debut in Tamil Cinema, Yee Gee Mahendran, MS Bhaskar, Robo Shankar and SJ Suryah too in a brief cameo. The best part is how the director somehow makes use of all members of the ensemble cast not just for the sake of inclusion.

Yatchan entertains on many aspects, the multi-starrer quotient, comedy, thrills and gives a sense of anticipation upon what happens when the lead actors cross roads, makes you wonder what next.  Arya is best when it breaks down to the comic mixed action role, he does that perfectly here as a die hard Thala fan with various references right from the start to the end. Kreshna on the other hand, after ‘Yamiruka Bayame’ has improved heavily in his acting skills, wanting to become a big actor, he fills the shoes amicably, but does leave behind room for improvements too. The heroines of the movies too do not just fill the spaces left behind by hero, but rather have a meaty role, Swathi as the sweet girlfriend and Deepa as the mystical girl with powers serving their purpose.

That said Yatchan tries to shuttle between different genres and confuses an average viewer on what to expect, a thriller or a comedy? Like for instance, just when you see Kreshna and Deepa making in the run after shooting a cop you would expect a twist or thrilling set of events to unfold, but what follows are a series of comical sequences and then a song! The plot just suffers too many sequences like this which is not filled with the apt ingredients. Somehow the use of Thala references is becoming a trend and one too many has been essayed in ‘Yatchan’. The movie itself starts with how Deepa acquires the accidental Nostradamus kind of foreseeing power, but the plot doesn’t give enough justification and somehow it appears the story would have worked even without such a theme.