Jayam Ravi's sister goes missing amidst this. Civilians infected with a new-born virus are on the prowl, behaving like feral dogs. The bro-sis sentiment on the one hand, the Jayam Ravi-Lakshmi Menon love story on the other precede the coming of an earth-shaking trouble.
In a zombie thriller like this, the best idea that comes in the first half is that of this little sister getting a marriage broker for her brother. He has a lovable little sister who wants to get him married. Jayam Ravi is a cop who is in the traffic department. Heroism in films like these would only get sexier if the hero is shown to be the saviour that the government with all its machinery is unable to be. Even as an epidemic that would make even a world body like WHO take emergency measures is sreading like crazy, the feeling the aduience gets is that of a localized problem (like that Jambalakadi Pamba problem, a style fit only for comedies) being dealt with by ill-equipped cops with not a hint of a para-military force being drafted to contain the ferocious virus-affected civilians instead of allowing the cops to shoot! The only politician seen around is a buffoon. For the sake of comedy, for the sake of 'Just miss, mama!' we are made to watch such silly stuff. When the other person is unable to shoot properly, a hero who is standing next to him is expected to grab the gun and do the thing for himself. And yes, had this film been made by a "commercial" Telugu director, he would probably have had one additional comedian: among the doctors, irritating fellow docs by raising funny doubts about the virus! Has mediocrity evolved into insensitivity to such an extent that our filmmakers think anything sells? But wait, howsoever mind-numbing might this Yamapasam (the Telugu version of Miruthan) be, we should thank heavens for the fact that the "commercial" story-teller takes care to have a sensible climax at least for the sake of a sequel, if not for anything else. Having your hero and his sidekick indulge in humour while a heart-searing tragedy is playing out, should beat the imagination of one and all.
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