Mithran R Jawahar puts a fun twist on the Velai Illa Pattadhari template. 

Still, this is a movie at its core of lovable innocence 
 Mithran J Jawahar's Tiruchitravaram pink frame has a brooding, lifeless quality that radiates sadness and sorrow. That's what the movie is about: repressed emotions. Still, this movie isn't as  sad as you might think. It's actually the opposite, full of life and laughter. It's a movie that has charm in its innocence. Speaking of which, Dhanush plays the title role and  is always referred to as Pazam, which in Tamil often means an innocent person.

 Who in Indian cinema sells innocence better than Dhanush? There's something grim about the way an actor plays an innocent, good-for-nothing man.We saw that in Poladaban. Adukalam. VIPs. Ranjana. Vada Chennai. in many movies. Of course, there is also Nishia Menon who sells innocence. And they're in a movie together. How wonderful is that? The answer  is 'Megham Karukkata' which dances like two butterflies.

First, Mithran R Jawahar puts a fun twist on the Velai Illa Pattadhari template. The film still follows VIP's structure and may borrow some highlights and Anirudh's score, but the similarities end there. In fact, it's hard to tell if Thiruchitrabalam is his rom-com or his life drama about family life. Maybe it's both. Dhanush with three heroines, so it  has the costumes and language of a rom-com.

 But it is also a  life drama about letting go, inspired by the great Bharatiraja and Prakash Raj."rom-com" is just one layer and never comes to the foreground. It's truly remarkable how Mithran writes these characters and the respective worlds they inhabit. Patham is now trying to pursue her high school sweetheart Anusha (Rashi Khanna). He works at a grocery store and she is upper class.

 Then comes Ranjani (Priya Bhavani Shankar) who is from Tiruchitravaram's own village. In either case, Tiruchitravaram becomes a handsome middleman who cannot rise or fall. He is neither here nor there. And  Shobana (the wonderful Nithya Menon. Well, when didn't she do great things?) is there.Mithran doesn't make excuses or say anything about Anusha and Ranjani's background. . It's just used to emphasize that "what you like and what you want are different".

Forget to take yourself seriously. I don't think this movie is a big deal. His aspirations are the size of the colony that Patham and Shobana live in. That alone is a huge boon to a film full of life...it is strongly emotionally rooted.Thiruchitrabalam is also consistent throughout the period. He's one of the rare rom-coms to maintain that tone. And  every tense moment gets a subversion from the character.

There are many chances to fail in Misrun. But all mines appearing in the form of cinematic clichés - childhood friends, unrequited love. A hero who  has failed repeatedly with his father's problems and a friend of his grandfather - the director is sure to surprise by making a few fixes (inventions?) here and there. Take, for example,  the scene in which Patham feels guilty watching his father become paralyzed.

 Mithran does not immediately enter the sentimental zone. Instead, we get a wonderful dialogue from Bharatiraja: "Unnaku avan appa, enakku avan pulla da." I cried. This is a director who knows what not to do. Tiruchitravaram is full of fulfilling moments  that make you sob,  pause, and laugh in one breath, like a method actor in an art movie.