


There are hints in a couple of scenes that there is something more to Anupriya, but the writing doesn’t give answers to these suggestions, and, in fact, these arcs are just forgotten and overlooked. She is allowed to do nothing, except to be part of song sequences, give conflicting stares, smile, and do some unnecessary things to unite the estranged father-son duo only to get rightfully shut down by both father and son for poking her nose into the family affairs. The makers would call it the leading lady angle, but it is the most dispensable heroine track in all of Ponram’s films.

Also, there is another side gag that features Anupriya (Mirnalini Ravi). There is a tiny fun gag involving different kinds of omelettes. There is one other little gag about Samuthirakani’s marriage (shockingly unfunny). There is a neat little gag about Ravi trying his best to feature himself on the front page of a newspaper (a wasted potential). The other principal character in this dysfunctional family equation is Agni (Samuthirakani), who vows not to wear a particular piece of apparel till his nephew Ravi makes a name for himself in society. Saranya Ponvannan, who continues from where she left off in Em Magan, Kalavani, and Velayilla Pattadhari, plays the hapless mother torn between a duelling father and son. MGR Magan is about a strained father-son equation shared by MG Ramasamy (Sathyaraj) and Ravi. Cast: Sasikumar, Samuthirakani, Sathyaraj, Mirnalini Ravi
