Surya(Ajith) has been brought up in the army barracks in Ooty, ever since his mother(Sukanya) handed him over as a baby to a brigadier(Nasser). She tells the officer the reason for her action but the audience is not allowed to hear it at this point (a good ploy since people would have walked out right then if they had heard the reason!). Surya grows up to be a patriotic youth and the best soldier in his class. He falls in love with Indu(Simran), the daughter of an army officer. Indu's parents accept her choice of husband but soon after, her father dies in a bomb blast while her mother loses her life on seeing her husband's body. Not wishing to lose her husband too in war, Indu asks Surya to choose between her and the army.

It is clear that Sukanya's flashback, narrated by Nasser to Ajith in order to convince him to stay in the army, is the crux of the movie. By muting Sukanya's talk to Nasser, the director makes it obvious that there is some suspense inherent in her decision and asks us to wait for it to be revealed. Unfortunately, the flashback is also the weakest part of the movie. And its not just Sukanya's decision that is puzzling. The whole sequence raises so many questions that I wonder if the director put any thought at all into what he was offering. And if Sukanya's act here sets the bar for stupidity, Simran's final act raises(or is it lowers?) it another notch. While several movies have had unacceptable endings, this is one of the few cases where the ending was actually distasteful.

Unfortunately, these sections are not the only ones where the director messes things up. The serious setting of the army barrack is reduced to what seems like a casual camp, with the activities of Charlie, Dhamu and Chinni Jayanth making a mockery of the army living conditions. Their jokes and the group song sung by army cadets(led by the same guy who danced to Maha Ganapathy... in Amarkkalam ) don't add any respect to life in the army. Manivannan, the cook, and Ramesh Khanna, his assistant, also do their part to disgrace the army with some crude and vulgar comedy.

Romance seems to be the only aspect that the director seems to have a hold on. Sequences like Simran's first meeting with Ajith and Ramesh Khanna and the trick Ajith plays after shouting out "I love Indu" and hearing it echo back earn some brownie points for the director. There are also some nice dialogs scattered around which are sensible. Ajith's reasoning for leaving the army is one of them.

While the movie is definitely a black spot on Ajith's recent streak of hits, he acquits himself well enough. Though looking too young and boyish to fit into the role of an army soldier, he performs well in both the light and heavy scenes. Simran looks old and doesn't exhibit the charm she has displayed in other movies. Nasser repeats the role he had in Roja. Parthiban is subdued in the flashback as is Sukanya. The title song is a melodious one in S.A.Rajkumar's soundtrack.