It is pretty sad to see the depths to which Prabhu has fallen. Once a top rung actor with both box-office hits and critically praised performances to his credit, he has now been reduced to starring in subpar, low-budgeted movies that rarely, if ever, make an impression at the box-office and definitely don't bring him any critical acclaim. Super Kudumbam is the latest in his recent string of mediocre movies that tries to offer both laughs and sentiments and casts him as a middle class man trying to overcome some problems. But with the comedy not being very effective and the attempt at sentiments ending up being quite distasteful, the movie is even less entertaining than his other recent offerings.

Arun(Prabhu), a bank manager, is in love with Abirami(Pratyuksha) and depends on his friend Hari(Vivek) to help him. Hari is in love with Sowmya, whose father(Vinu Chakravarthy) insists that his house can only be rented to a couple whose marriage is an intercaste marriage. Wishing to impress him, Hari arranges a rowdy Raakku(Roja) to pose as his Brahmin sister Gayatri and asks Arun to pose as Raakku's husband. Arun agrees but problems arise when Abirami spots him in a few compromising situations.

The movie does keep us guessing for a little while on the path it is going to adopt. Prabhu falling in love with Pratyuksha without seeing her and misunderstanding Roja to be his unseen lover lead us to believe that the movie might be another one on mistaken identities. It is only when Prabhu agrees to pose as Roja's husband that the real story becomes evident. While the situations under which Pratyuksha misunderstands Prabhu are definitely contrived, the director does earn some points by resolving these issues quite quickly. By making the characters actually speak to each other and explain themselves, he allows new issues to crop up instead of prolonging a single issue for too long.

While the movie is mostly intended as a comedy, the comic potential of the situations is never exploited fully. With Pandu intent on unmasking Prabhu and Roja and both of them having their own reasons to make sure they are not exposed, the situations are ripe for comedy(Crazy Mohan elicited so many laughs out of the same situation in movies like Kaadhalaa Kaadhalaa). But the resolution of the scenes where Pandu spots Prabhu doing the household duties or Roja eating non-vegetarian food, is not satisfactory. The way Prabhu handles the revelation that the boy posing as their son is an actor is the only one that is anywhere near interesting and clever.

Sentiments dominate the final portions with Roja undergoing a change of heart and Prabhu belittling her attempts to turn over a new leaf. But things take a turn for the vulgar with the actions of Roja's sister's husband and scenes like the one where Roja dances in an inebriated condition. Some suspense is thrown into the mix too with Roja's pregnancy and the man responsible for it but sloppy handling of the sequence of events and bad planning with respect to the timing of some revelations takes all the surprise out.

Prabhu looks aged and one feels sorry for him. Roja, who has put on a little weight, makes use of the oppurtunities she gets to emote. She is believable both as the foul-mouthed rowdy and the traditional Brahmin woman without overdoing either of the roles. Pratyuksha is used mainly to jack up the glamor quotient through her song sequences but it doesn't really suit her. Dancing is not her strong point and she looks really odd doing all those gyrations in the second song. As in Lovely, Vinu Chakravarthy is on hand just to get duped while Vivek doesn't get enough funny lines to make an impression. The quality of Adityan's songs matches that of the movie.