Mahendra Bhoopathy(Nambiar) and his wife(Manorama) head a large family with their two sons, one daughter and their spouses and children. Cheenu(Shaam), one of their grandsons, is loved by all while Shiva(Yugendran), who works in the city, is the black sheep of the family. Their only sadness comes from their estranged daughter, who eloped. But its their sixtieth birthday and so they invite the daughter, who arrives with her daughter Vaishali(Shaarmi). Cheenu and Vaishali fall in love but it soon develops into a love triangle when Shiva starts believing Vaishali is in love with him and so falls for her too.

The movie fails to get anything right. There is nothing sweet or cute in the romance between Shaam and Sharmili and their first meeting(he sees her admiring and saving a snail in the middle of the road and then saves her dog) sets the silly tone for the rest of their meetings. There is hardly any chemistry between them and Shaam's apparent interest in launching into a song and dance with any skimpily dressed woman on the road hardly helps his character as a sincere loverboy. The first dance can be condoned as the usual introduction song but the second, when he is actually in love with Sharmili, cannot be easily overlooked.

There are no sparks in the encounters between Shaam and Yugendran. Inspite of all the buildup about Yugendran being someone the family doesn't like, his acts are damp squibs with amateurish acts like him not shaking Shaam's extended hand marking his animosity towards Shaam. Apart from his own illwill towards Shaam, we also have Manivannan hatching plans to build up the enmity between them. But his plans are also equally lacklustre.

Shaarmi turning out the target of both Shaam's and Yugendran's affections is probably the most interesting among the goings on in the movie but the movie takes so long in getting there that we barely have any interest in the proceedings. In keeping with the rest of the movie, the situations that lead to Yugendran believing that Shaarmi is in love with him are silly and unbelievable. For instance, Shaarmi gives a flying kiss to Shaam when he is out of town while Yugendran believes it is intended for him. The climax peters out in an expected manner with the expected characters mouthing predictable dialogs.

Shaam, who doesn't have a single hit to his credit inspite of an impressive debut in the wonderful 12B , looks lost in the poorly defined character. Shaarmi fares little better. Yugendran has fun with his role but the character is too over the top to be even mildly villainous. Nambiar and Manorama are believable as the loving grandparents while Manivannan and 'Thalaivasal' Vijay hardly make an impression. Bharadwaj tries to come up with another O Podu... in the Ramya Krishnan number but a few catchy lines are all he can muster. Ramya though looks great and her fast dance is one of the better segments in the movie.