The movie attempts to deliver a heart wrenching family story highlighting the importance of preserving our core values, culture and language. Apart from that human sensibilities, love, gratitude and morals were also shown. In the scope given Ramya Krishnan, Prakash Raj and Brahmananda acted well. The story also tries to show us, how with the passage of time everything in one's life changes as we keep playing various roles in our lives. However, direction was weak, poor production, lousy music, strained songs, poor background score and zero cinematography. The movie became too preachy, it felt like Prakash Raj was carrying the entire movie on his shoulder when other characters of the story were equally important. It becomes impossible to root for anyone in the story because:
1. Prakash Raj's character was portrayed as a man blinded by his ego, consumed by his arrogance, having poor morals.
2. Ramya Krishnan's talent was wasted and there was nothing much given to her except that she kept supporting her husband despite of all the arrogance, bad habits, drinking, vices he had in the past etc. The dynamics and strength of a husband wife relationship was completely ignored by the director.
3. Except that it was good to see Brahmananda play a different role there wasn't much weightage given to his character.
The movie could have a better script and direction. Killing someone just because they are unable to live their life is totally unacceptable however much one pleads for it. It creates a negative impact and gives out a wrong message to the audience. How can one forgive themselves and how can the wife support her husband so blindly and how will she or the family ever forgive such a man!
We all are flawed in our relationships in one way or the other but with time and age one tends to reflect on one's self to get more harmonious and the process of learning this continues until one dies. The reason for the family to have burnt down to shambles was clearly because of one man's hipocrisy, arrogance, selfishness and ego and the wife who always supported it even till the end! If parents aren't available for their kids when they are growing up it is too late for them (especially the father in this case) to expect their kids to be respectful, obedient and caring towards them or to presume that they would put up with all the tantrums and arrogance because by then kids would have had their own tapered thoughts and ideas and would believe that being like their father is accepted or normal especially because their mother always supported him even when he was wrong.