On hearing this, Aadhavan takes the Magistrate hostage to escape and makes Thara drive the car to an undisclosed destination. Since things do not seem to progress, Reddy sends Banerjee’s brother-in-law whom he had kept in captivity to the Magistrate’s home to break the secret that Aadhavan is a killer. Thara (Nayanthara) is the niece of the Magistrate and becomes the love interest of Aadhavan. The Magistrate, Subramaniam ( Murali), is a strict disciplinarian and the house is prim and proper when he is around and all fun and gaiety when he is not. Aadhavan enters the house in the guise of the cook Banerjee’s (Vadivel) would-be brother-in-law, Murugan. The plan is to kill the Magistrate when he is on holiday with his family at Kolkata. The reason being that Reddy is involved in a multi-crore scam wherein he sold the organs of small children and murdered them and the Magistrate is to pronounce judgement on this which would surely land him in jail. His adopted father (Shayaji Shinde) makes a deal with Reddy (Rahul Dev) to kill a Magistrate. So we have Aadhavan (Suriya), a cold-blooded contract killer who has no qualms about his profession. He succeeds to some extent in terms of entertaining you in places but that’s about it as the film fails to rise above being an average ‘masala mix.’ And even that, the camera never allows us to forget that fact with innumerable shots of the Howrah Bridge! The director, KS Ravikumar, who has delivered many trendsetting blockbusters, has tried to bring in the perfect commercial cocktail of romance, action, family sentiment and comedy. The story seems to have bits and pieces put together from yesteryear blockbusters, while the backdrop is the only change as the film is set in Kolkata. However, as it progresses, the pace slows down and the screenplay meanders as the comedy and the happy-joint-family scenes detract from the main plot. The opening of Aadhavan makes you look forward to a nail-biting thriller as you have the goons and the guns in good measure.
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