Director Michael K. Raja is trying to explain to us the good and bad things that we encounter in the journey of life in a single journey from Chennai to Tirunelveli.
Vimal, who makes a living as a hearse driver, becomes pregnant to give life to Mary Ricketts, a young woman. Vimal, who has been pregnant twice and carrying stillborn babies, is planning to give birth in a hospital where her third pregnancy is life-threatening.
For that, he wants to bring the dead body of a great man from Chennai to Tirunelveli. The heart of the story is whether the trip went as he expected after negotiating a huge sum of money for it.
Vimal has acted without caring about his role. He earns our pity as he leaves his wife in a dangerous condition, leaves her with no other way to earn money, and at one point tries to commit suicide, wishing that he could not.
Even a fight scene that comes in between in the screenplay which does not have regular songs and fight scenes does not spoil the nature of Vimal’s character.
Karunas from Tirunelveli comes in the guise of picking him up and eating him quietly. He, who is a conjurer, begged and begged to get into Vimal’s hearse without the cost of traveling to his home town without having to cut down on the art of conjuring to become obsolete.
His jokes and hilarity, innocence, humor, humanity and understanding of life are what keep the film and the cart going.
It is an amazing stage when he makes Vimal understand that the real humanity is the common people are the angels, and Vimal feels himself as an angel in saving the lives of such a loving couple who are in great danger by sheltering them.
Mary Ricketts, the heroine, has no burdens other than carrying a pregnancy.
Adukalam Naren of the elder family, Pawan and Deepa Shankar of the younger family have shown the emotions of their rights struggle well in the issue of the direct family of the deceased great man and his paternal family, who are fighting that the corpse should belong to them.
Aruldas, the caste fanatic who gets the girl in the intervening love couple, is fierce at the beginning and resilient at the end.
The intermission scene where Vimal disposes of the dead body gives us more anxiety than him.
People who have played other roles have also acted naturally.
Wonderful story. But it is the screenplay that gives the experience of stopping and moving like the hearse driven by Vimal.
Vimal’s final tribute to the lonely Karunas is fitting. But it is a matter to be debated whether it is right to commit a betrayal to the family without virtue.