Balumahendra has made a come back with a big bang thro' this movie. Though the story line is based on Stephen King's "Misery", Balu has improvised and tamilized it and polished it into a more interesting screenplay.

When the tamil cinema revolves around the same, boring sentimental stories written keeping the heroes in mind, Balumahendra has made a bold step to take our tamil cinema one step ahead, by solely believing his story and narrative ability, that the starcast is not any latest heart throbs. The storyline is very simple that, it is enough to make an hour teleserial , but we should appreciate Balu's guts to have canned it as a feature film and have managed to have songs too.

The film revolves around Jeyaram and Saritha alone and Ramya Krishnan appears occassionally. The film is mostly shot indoor . Jeyaram plays the role of a famous T.V. serial writer and with not much to do something heroic, with his facial expressions and sarcastic comments gets applause. Saritha the title character who keeps Jeyaram in house arrest and tortures him to do things as her wish. Later she falls in love with him and with her speaking eyes and obese body, suits the character like glove. Saritha can expect a national award for her performance.

Saritha's father leaving the lunatic daughter alone and going to U.S. knowing that she was responsible for her husband's death is unbelievable. That too, she refuses to go to U.S. as she wants to watch a tele serial.

Junior Baalaiyaa just comes for a fewscenes and tickles with his alcoholic conversation with a dog. Since dogs play important roles in Balu's films like 'Subramani' in "Moondraam pirai", when everyone expects 'Mangaa' to do something or help Jeyaram, it just gives a guest appearace. RamyaKrishnan is wasted in the film and she is made use only for the "Thanni konjam" song which is included in the film to satisfy the distributors and C class audience.

As usual, Balumahendra has proved that he is a class- cinematographer. In his previous project, "Raman Abdullah", lighting and camera received lots of criticisms as they resembled movies that came in 70s . But in this movie, his cinematography is comparable to Hollywood movies. Editing is also by Balumahendra and it is as usual flawless and keeps the audience intact.

Ilaiyaraja as usual has given helping hands to the film by his excellent re-recording and beautiful songs. At places one can feel his music speaking and expressing the feelings where the scene runs for minutes without any dialogue. The maestro knows very well where to be silent and when to have threatening music. The songs are shortened keeping the pace of the film in mind and especially when the "enakku piditha paadal" song is abruptly stopped, the audience long for the full song to be played.

Balumahendra has dedicated this film to the younger generation people who has the calibre to take cinema ahead and sure with such films to guide them, tamil cinema is sure to be rejuvenated. Julie Ganapathy is surely another feather in Balu's cap. For people who are tired of films with unnatural action, double meaning comedies, exposed songs and trash sentiments, this thriller is sure to be a visual treat.