Anthony Dhaas('Jayam' Ravi) and Rajeswari(Renuka Menon) have eyes for each other though the two have never expressed their feelings to each other. Rajeswari's father is extremely caste-conscious and when he sees his niece romancing with a youth from a different caste, he has them both killed. This makes Rajeswari voluntarily elope with Dhaas to teach her dad a lesson.

Dhaas is less a movie than a collection of cliches. The director seems to have been on a mission to pack as many cliches as possible in two and a half hours. So the hero is in love with the villain's daughter, the heroine is rich while the hero is poor and they are from different religions. The caste card is played too with another pair from different castes in love.As if all these were not enough, the second half plays like an advertisement for religious tolerance with some terrorists thrown in to take care of the patriotism angle.

The entire romance of Ravi and Renuka is based on a few coy glances and shy smiles. I'm not sure if a girl would take a big step like running away with a man, based on so little. From what I could gather, all Renuka knows about Ravi is that he plays football. So the list of things she looks for in a prospective lover/husband must be really short. Couples usually elope for love but this is the first time I've seen a couple elope for spite! So their travails in after they elope never make much of an impact.

One of Tamil cinema's favorite sequences is to show the hero at the receiving end of a thrashing(that no human being could realistically survive) and then have him revive himself to give the bad guys their due. This was carried to ridiculous extents in Jayam's climax but even that looks mild compared to what happens here. I lost count of the number of times Ravi gets beaten up before pulling himself together to return the favor. And we are not talking a few taps here. He gets knocked on his head, hit on his leg and stabbed and gets blows rained on him in every other scene only to dust himself off and start fighting again. A phoenix would'v been proud!

The terrorists here must have attended the same school(where incompetency is an actual subject) that trained the terrorists in movies like Majunu . One of them has the animation of a planned landmine blast on his laptop, which he proceeds to leave lying in the open in a crowded house where a marriage has taken place. If real-life terrorists were this dumb, the war on terror would've been won a long time ago.

The climax puts Ravi(and a few others) in an interesting position and generates some nice suspense. For a little while, Ravi's way of extracting himself from the predicament even seems to make some sense. But then the director, in his enthusiasm to finally get the chance to put to use Ravi's football talents, closes out the climax in a ridiculous, impossible way.

Ravi seems to be quite a complete hero, dancing and fighting with ease. But his voice is not powerful enough. He seems to have actually taken some football lessons and seems quite convincing on the field. Renuka Menon does competently what every other heroine seems to be doing these days - look scared and run. Vadivelu is a pain. With 'Kovai' Sarala not around anymore, he seems to be looking for new people to receive beatings from. Not funny. Shanmugaraja makes a good villain and is menacing when he needs to be. YSR doesn't seem to have spent much time on the soundtrack. Saami Kitta... is the only hummable number. The first 2 lines of Ennoda Raasi... are exactly the same as an old Rajni number.