With Emttan Magan, director Thirumurugan, who was behind Metti Oli, arguably the most successful Tamil megaserial in recent times, seemed to have made a smooth transition to the big screen. But he slips up in his follow-up here. The film is little more than a collection of cliches put together haphazardly and the little interest it manages to drum up with its multiple tracks is killed off by the poor comedy and lame climax.

Muniyandi(Bharath) is the apple of his parent' eyes and they are extremely protective of him. He is studying Zoology and his father(Ponvannan) runs the canteen at the same college. Ramaiah is the caste-obsessed local bigwig who enrolls his daughter Madhumita(Poorna) in the same college and its not long before Muniyandi falls for her. She appears to reciprocate his feelings too but when its time to fix her wedding, she agrees to the match her father has picked and tells Muniyandi that they were simply friends. Worse, she accuses him of "misusing their friendship".

The film's name sure is unique but the uniqueness hasn't extended to its story. Thirumurugan has thrown together a bunch of cliches to make up the story and so the film doesn't have a single fresh moment in it. The movie appears to start off on a different track with Bharath being suffocated by his overprotective parents but soon descends into cliched subjects like a rich girl-poor boy romance (with ofcourse the heroine's dad being cast as the bad guy), caste-based politics and rowdies trying to play a part in college elections. Inspite of Bharath's department and year of college figuring in the title, they play no part in the proceedings, though I guess we can be glad that we don't see the usual mockery of the college scenario.

Poorna's rejection of Bharath's romance is the first sign of the story moving in a different direction. Though Bharath's love for her isn't portrayed as serious enough to warrant the strong reaction he has, the very fact that Poorna rejects him is welcome since it points to the film being more than another simple caste-based love story. It also allows Bharath to turn into an action hero as he begins to go up against Poorna's dad. But these encounters are more interesting once he gets an even stronger reason to take revenge on him and the scene where he enters his house at night and gives him a beating is one of the few scenes that works well.

With the Bharath-Poorna tiff, Bharath's clashes with Poorna's dad and the caste wars, the movie has several things going on. Unfortunately, all of them are resolved tamely - or even lamely. While Thirumurugan uses the oldest trick in the book to resolve things between Bharath and Poorna, he resorts to other characters and their newly-revealed backstories to conveniently close out the other tracks in a very predictable manner.

Bharath does the needful, romancing Poorna enthusiastically and fighting and dancing with gusto. Poorna, another Malayalam import, has the same soft looks we see on most heroines from Malayalam and thankfully, her role fits those looks. She does show of her dancing skills in the Kodangi Vandhirukken... number. Ponvannan hams a bit but conveys the feelings of a father fearful for his son's safety. Vadivelu snags a sizeable role as the college attender who also does double duty as a saamiyaar. His getup evokes some chuckles initially but his routines don't build up on that.