Debutant director Srinath and script writer Anees Jeeva have tried to provide us an entertainer laced with action and glamour. ‘Muthirai’ is about the story of a crime mystery entwined with a couple of love stories.

Azhagu (Daniel Balaji) is a high tech thief based in Chennai while Sathya (Nithin Sathya) is a raw thief from rural background. Both join hands and lead happy lives until they got trapped in a larger conspiracy.

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A man bumped off by cops leaves a laptop with Azhagu and Sathya and hence the cops hunt them. The two along with their girlfriends run away to escape from the police. Later, they find that the laptop has details of the murder of a political leader (Saravanan) and decide to play with the evidence.

Meanwhile, you get to see the love affairs of the heroes. While Kavya (Lakshmi Rai) has a strained relationship with her lover Azhagu, Arthi (Manjari Fadnnis) falls for Sathya believing that he is a CBI officer. Sathya and Arthi makes Kavya and Azhagu reunite but Arthi feels cheated after knowing the truth about Sathya.

How the lovers come together and how they escape the wrath of the police and politicians form the rest of the story.

Srinath and Anees have tried hard to present a racy thriller and they have succeed up to some extent. The scenes move fast and the multi layered crisis gets many twists and turns. However, they have failed to present the twists and the development credibly and that makes the film less convincing and less interesting.

The escape from the police and the way the laptop is handled are presented unconvincingly. How can an educated girl believe a person like Sathya as a CBI officer and falls for him? The marriage drama between Azhagu and Kavya looks silly. Why don’t anyone involved in the laptop mystery take a copy of the vital information stored in the system?

Performance wise, hero Danial Balaji hasn’t given up his villainy way of starring. His body language and expressions are no different from his earlier films. Nithin Sathya is getting predictable and clichéd. Lakshmi Rai sizzles with her glamour while Manjari looks out of place in a half- baked role.

Ponvannan, Kishore and Haneefa get clichéd roles and hence they don’t get any scope to perform. Rakhi Sawant’s item number doesn’t live up to the expectation.

Yuvan Shankar Raja hasn’t tried anything new but he has managed to give a few impressive tunes. Saleem's cinematography is quite impressive.

Muthirai fails to leave a firm impression on the audience, as it lacks logic and reasoning.