Sundar.C has tried his hand at different genres but his trademark genre, where he has had the most success, is comedy. Typically, his comedies have a large collection of characters and use tricks like mistaken identities to create chaos. Having just come off London, which was a standard Sundar.C film, he has attempted a romantic film with Thakadhimithaa. The film holds up well when it aims to be a comedy but falls flat with the romance, which unfortunately occupies the biggest part of the movie.

Krishna(Yuvakrishna), who works at an eatery, and Gayathri(Ankitha), a radio jockey, are neighbors. Their parents wish to get them married but both Krishna and Gayathri vehemently refuse the idea of their union. When the parents find out that the two were lovers in college, they seek the help of one of their friends from college Vivek(Vivek), to unite them again.

As Yuvakrishna and Ankita end up being neighbors and literally bump into each other, we settle down for yet another standard romance. The members of the familes of both Yuvakrishna and Ankita ensure there are many characters around and both the fights between MSV and 'Paravai' Muniamma and Vivek's antics in the eatery ensure a few chuckes. So Sundar.C is in familiar territory here and the film moves quite breezily. The young couple's refusal to wed each other makes us sit up a bit and the fact that they were lovers before is a nice surprise.

The film then becomes a romance as we go into a long flashback on Yuvakrishna and Ankita in college. Sundar is on slippery ground here and the movie grinds to a halt some time into the flashback. Yuvakrishna and Ankita falling in love is not convincing but that is the least of segment's problems. Since we know that the two have a falling out, we keep waiting for a fight between them. But there is more than one such fight and after the second one, it begins to get irritating. The fights themselves are not particularly original and the first one's plain silly.

Probably realising the weakness of the romance, Sundar gives Vivek footage almost equal to that of Yuvakrishna. The comedian, who has not been seen for a while, does not lift the movie way up but does provide some relief. While there are no original or funny sequences like in some of earlier movies, his lines that target known entities(Simbhu's finger swishing, Kungumam's weekly free gifts with purchase of the magazine, etc.) are quite funny.

As 'Paravai' Muniamma points out in the movie itself, it is unique seeing parents trying to fix up a young couple as opposed to parents being against lovers getting together. This kind of carries the movie forward after the flashback ends. Their plans aren't exactly new or radical but there is some suspense on exactly when the lead pair will have a change of mind.

Yuvakrishna reminds us of Shaam in both his looks, dialog delivery and mannerisms. He doesn't stand out but is better compared to some other heroes seen recently. I did not exactly go for Ankitha's droopy-eyed look in London and she does nothing here to change my opinion of her. Sundar's films have usually been mostly clean family entertainers but Thakadhimithaa cannot claim to be one if one goes by the song sequences. Almost all numbers, whether they are a solo song by the heroine, a duet or an item number, are quite vulgar. The songs are passable though.