The movie ‘Naan Mahaan Alla’ is a action-packed drama subject and you can expect colorful and handsome Karthi and cute Kajal Agarwal in this movie.The director Suseenthiran has neatly worked out the script, as first half is for characterisation and the second half the audience roots for the hero, which makes the climax believable. The film begins with four pot smoking college students, molesting and murdering a girl on a lonely beach.

After ending his debut film, the rural-centric ‘Vennila Kabbadi Kuzhu’ in a blaze of glory, Suseenthiran begins with a bang here, and it is a neat city mosaic that you get. Not bad considering that Chennai’s middle and lower middle class have been portrayed in only a hundred films. After introducing you to six football playing boys who get high on ganja and gang rape a woman, Suseenthiran makes Karthi burst on the scene. Not with the jaded hero-introduction song, but as a fun-loving guy you would love to know.

Cut to hero introduction scene, as Jeeva (Karthi) is shown celebrating wildly New Year with his friends. He is a nice guy who will do anything for his friends and family consisting of his father (Jayaprakash) a call taxi driver, mother (Lakshmi) and a sister. He has a way with neighbours, kids and people in the low income colony where he lives, and they all adore him.

One day at a friend’s wedding he meets a girl Priya (Kajal Aggarwal), with whom he strikes an instant rapport which develops into love. Jeeva being a straightforward, no nonsense guy barges into her house and asks her father, a criminal lawyer for her hand, which leads to trouble. Meanwhile Jeeva’s life gets more complicated as his father gets murdered, by the same gang seen in the beginning of the film. Life changes for Jeeva, as he goes in search of his father’s killers, leading to a stunning climax on a lonely beach.

What an impact Karthi makes in his fourth film. He nails the character to perfection and does everything a super hero does in Tamil films without making it look larger-than-life on screen. He is one good reason to see the film. Jayaprakash is growing in stature in character roles, and here as father he is simply too good, the bonding scenes between him and Karthi are fantastic.

Kajal Aggarwal and Karthi’s on screen chemistry crackles and she is charming though her role is limited. The casting of unknown newcomers especially the four mean and diabolic guys who knows no fear and the chap who plays the Royapuram dada is apt. The film has no separate comedy track or comedians. Still Karthi brings the house down with some good comedy especially the scenes in which he turns as a bill collection agent and the scene where Priya’s father invites him to a bar to actually give him a warning.

Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music (Irgai Pole is the pick) and background score is spellbinding. Rajeevan’s sets of lower income group flats, houses destroyed by Tsunami on the beaches where climax takes place, makes the background look so real. Anal Arasu’s climax action choreography keeps the adrenaline pumping.