paratta azhagu sundaram

Starring Dhanush and Meera Jasmine, the story revolves around the love between a mother and son.
Dhanush lives with his parents in the village. One day, his friend comes from the city and shows him pretty things. While Dhanush is spending time with his friend, his father dies. To help his mother he leaves for the city without telling him. As soon as he arrives in the city, he is cheated, but Nazar helps him along. Dhanush is the witness to a murder attempt, but is left alone.
After a few weeks, he manages to get his mother bangles as a gift. As he is just about to leave, he walks around with the bangles in his hand and tea (for the same thugs who did the murder attempt) in the other. The thugs aggravate him by calling his mother names. Dhanush is enraged and finishes the leader of the team off. Seeing his power, the guy he saves from the murder attempt tries to buy him in, but Dhanush stays aloof. Overtime, Nazar makes him understand that it is important for him to stay violent to stay alive and see his mother.
Meanwhile his mother comes to the city and starts searching. She meets Meera and Meera tries to help her along. Now we see lots of cliches with the mother and son walking and going to the same place but missing each other by a fraction of a second. Eventually, Dhanush's mother sees the friend who came to the village, who asks her to stay outside a temple, where Dhanush had told him, he always visited. But right on the day when she waits, Dhanush doesn't come because he hides for protection. His mother dies the next day. As her body is being carried to the cemetery, thinking it is some orphan's death, he pays all his respects. As he just finishes the duties, his friend comes by to tell that that was his mother. Dhanush is devastated and starts dancing with his imagination.
The constant dancing with his mother was a little annoying. As was the cliche of missing each other by inches. Village people know matters in everyone's house all over the village. They tend to be observant - of course they fall for sweet talk, but they usually are shown to be people who constantly look around. Especially a few scenes where the mother and son were in line of sight and they didn't see each other because their backs were turned and stuff like that - was an overkill. Dhanush is believable as an innocent village guy, but not as a hooligan. And really. that parattai of his seems like a huge burden on his head that he should probably cut off! Meera hardly had any role to play. The comedian in the movie was tolerable, but he uses too much of a street language, which is annoying at times. A not-so-great movie.