Tamil cinema directors always seem to think that an exotic locale could be a substitute for all other aspects of a movie. While Junior Senior took us on a tour of Singapore while presenting a juvenile story, Nenjil takes us even farther away to London and presents an even sillier story.

Anand(Navdeep) and Priya(Aparna), who are always at odds with each other, both win a trip to London in a raffle. Accompanying them on the trip are Krishnamoorthy('Thalaivaasal' Vijay) and Kalyani(Ranjitha), both of whom have had bad experiences in love and so are dead against it. They advise Anand and Priya against falling in love but the young couple challenges them that their love would succeed. So Krishnamoorthy and Kalyani, who do not want to lose face, want to make sure that the romance between Anand and Priya doesn't succeed.

The boy and girl sparring with each other before falling for each other(modhal before kaadhal!) has long been a staple of love stories. But neither Navdeep and Aparna fighting with each other nor falling in love is convincing here. Their fights are a disjoint series of episodes with no background on how they even run into each other all the time. Their romance is even less believable and happens so abruptly that it is completely unconvincing.

A love story always has an obstacle that the lovers must surmount in order to be together. In movies we've had love being threatened by religion, caste, status and even the lovers' own egos. But the means Nenjil uses to separate the lovers is completely stupid. Vijay and Ranjitha, who don't even know Navdeep and Aparna before they go on the trip, scheming to separate them just because they have had a bad history of love is silly and completely unbelievable. With such a silly plot point, the romance has no chance of involving us and so we are completely detached from the story. We get a regular villain - one who sabotages their romance for personal gain - later but he does nothing different or interesting either.

Vadivelu, Mayilsami and 'Paravai' Muniamma are dragged along on the trip as an obvious ploy to introduce some comedy. Sadly, they don't elicit a single laugh between them. The comedy consists of Vadivelu making disparaging comments about foreigners and running away from them after getting in some kind of trouble. Vadivelu even gets a double role but it definitely doesn't lead to double the fun. The second character is introduced in a way reminiscent of Javed Jaffrey's hilarious turn in Salaam Namaste but is irritating rather than funny.

The film isn't just bad. It is unoriginal. Apart from the familiar story, there are individual scenes reminding us of sequences from Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Guru and even the recent Chennai Kaadhal. The one shred of originality is in those costumed figures used to represent the inner feelings of Vijay and Ranjitha. It is a good idea but not presented too well and since the rest of the film is so silly, it looks silly too.

Navdeep is sincere enough. Aparna looks quite glamorous though yesteryear actress Ranjita gives her tough competition. She looks to be one of the few older actresses who hasn't put on any weight and still looks as good as she did before. 'Thalaivaasal' Vijay overacts at a few places as usual.