Story

A man in desperate need of money gets caught up in a counterfeiting operation.

A small girl spills a grain of rice during her supper, her father (Charlie) notices and gives her a slow but lengthy lecture of how even a grain of rice comes from a rice field, finally lands in her plate after the entire process without being wasted. It’s a beautiful explanation, but what drives the scene is how the director portrays the man’s poverty line with a minute long scene. There is another scene when Simha is in a dilemma if he should betray his conscious and sees a blind man lecture his son on pickpocketing, intense! Scenes like these get Paambhu Sattai going, even though they are very few in number. PS is the story of a man in desperation, how he responds to the situation and overcomes is the story said in a single line. The director has his task cut out in showing various shades of the movie, a fake currency scandal, a sensitive relationship between a man and his sister in law, his candy glossed love and all that. Somehow in the process of mixing all these together the writing becomes very predictable and loses its glam.

Bobby Simha is a simpleton who works for a can-water supplier lives with his sister in law after his brother passes away, falls in love in Kollywood’s most predictable format and to get out of the money jinx falls in a money laundering fraud. His desperate measures to keep everyone happy puts him in a fix, Simha has rather acted beautifully, his rugged and unclean looks puts him right in his character. The first half of the movie follows the traditional format of a guy who has to stalk his way out to fall in love, probably because it was in 2015 before Swati murder, maybe the last of the lot to glorify stalking even though the love scenes are cute and comical. Muktha Banu is Simha’s sister in law, in a tragic accident loses her husband and they live together much to the predictable taunts from the public and as everyone around ( Simha, Muktha, Keerthy Suresh) have a hard time when it comes to money, it’s up to Simha to make amendments.