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Cast: Rajesh, Nitesh, Divya Dwivedi, Sheethal Shah, Sukanya, Durga Shetty, Rajan P Dev, Kottayam Nazeer, Devan, Saju Kodiyan
Director: Md Sharvi

It's a college campus - The girls are in spaghetti tops and minis, the guys in designer wear; the lecturers depicted like a bunch of jokers like in most Tamil films; the attendant, the supposed comedy track, always in the frontline, hogging equal or even more importance than the heroes. The gang wars, an unscrupulous politician, and an avaricious college-founder.

There are innumerable dances and fights with hockey sticks and cricket bats. So what's new? Nothing! This is the director's depiction of campus life, and, obviously, he can't be expecting one to take his film seriously.

The plus point of the film is its glamorous, colourful ambience. Attractive fresh faces Divya and Sheethal, their hour-glass figures shown to advantage. Handsome debutants Rajesh and Nitesh appear in their designer wear. But then the main leads hardly get noticed individually, getting lost somewhere in the over-crowded scenario.

Also lost in the glamorous ambience are the issues the director tries to raise. Like the resposibility of the students, the student-power, the impending sale of the college land by the avaricious founder, the attempt by a college lecturer (Sukanya in a comeback role) to din some sense into the students - all fail to make any impact.

It's Sharvi's (he's directed some Malayalam films) debut film in Tamil, and he would have done better to concentrate on his script, focusing on what exactly he wanted to convey...