Director Kadir has courageously used a far fetched story line and made a film out of it.

Jeeva is a dab hand at making sharp sickles. He comes from Madurai to Chennai and goes to work for gangster Ravi Kale whose strength lies in his association with a politician and henchmen to do his bidding.

Jeeva thinks his boss is in the tree cutting business. So he makes different types of sickles. In between he falls in love with music teacher Poonam. A few sentimental scenes and some romantic duets and soon somehow is a situation where the hero has to face the boss in opposition. Just when we think, Oh God, the very same thing, the climax makes us give a second look.

 "Whether you come single or in a group," says Jeeva to the villain and the sparks fly. The director gives this promising fiery start to the film and himself throws water on the flame as he launches into tedious flashbacks.

Even though Ravi Kale's henchmen are hefty, the innocent Jeeva has no idea what they are involved in. How many such films have we seen before? Like the 'Guna' Kamal, he tells his lady love to write a letter to his mom and tests our patience.

How the music teacher falls for a naïve guy like Jeeva and how the heroine's father Delhi Ganesh, says Ok without batting an eyelid pushes back Ganja Karuppu's comedy.

The villain's son also gets on one's nerves. A minister, a gangster who gets work done for him…oh god, please change track!

The hefty villains come in about 30 Tata Sumos, get squashed like mosquitoes in the Corporation pesticide spray, and hero Jeeva has not a single scratch on him. That is the thenavattu with which the director has evolved the screenplay, so how can we appreciate that?

So, let's make our critique at least brief and be done with it!

'Thenavattu' is a bore.