This predictable film is ideologically inept and clumsily crafted

Generally, filmmakers find it easy to dish out social issues if their films are set in a fictional world.

- AKSHAY KUMAR

This helps you stay away from offending any powerful person, organization or community. It also creates a space for uninhibited discussions. But filmmaker Esakki Karvannan is disingenuous with things he presents as issues and lacks honesty in exploring them fully.

Paramasivan Fathima introduces the fictional world of Subramaniyapuram and the towns split from it, namely Yokobpuram (predominantly Christian) and Sultanpettai (predominantly Muslim). The film begins with the narration that the rampant conversions are the reason for the split, and prospective grooms die a day before their D-day. In parallel, we get glimpses of Paramasivan (Vemal) and Fathima/Tamilselvi (Chayadevi), teasing us with what could have happened to them even though the familiar stench of honor killing is discernible from a mile away. However, the film chooses to take a tiring 140 minutes to tell how the deaths and conversions are related.