Pattalam

<p>The film is about two groups of four adolescents in Holy Bells School, who are pitted against each other. Their encounters make up the first part. Daisy ( ) is the correspondent of the school. A psychologist too, she manages a mental asylum. She believes that students in her school can be disciplined only through love and no hard punishments will reform them. At first, two groups of students who are rivals are always seen fighting with each other. At an athletic competition, due to their enmity, they come last of all. At this time, a former professor of the school who was dismissed from the school due to his harsh punishments taunts Daisy, saying that only harsh punishments and scolding can make students disciplined. Seeing the taunts that Daisy is hearing due to them, the two rivals join together to make Daisy and the school proud of them. On the other hand, Sakkarai (Arun) is secretly loving Sophia (Deepthi Nambiar), who is new to their school. She stays with him in Daisy’s asylum. Meanwhile, Karthi ( ), who is one of the members of the rival gang, loses his father, due to which his mother deserts him. Therefore, he too joins Sakkarai and Sophia in the asylum. Karthi sees his dead sister in Sophia, and so he is very friendly with her. Thinking that Karthi and Sophia are in love each other, Sakkarai plans to kill Karthi by making a church bell fall on him. However, after knowing the truth, Sakkarai rushes to save Karthi, but unfortunately, Jerry ( ) comes under the bell and dies. The incident makes Sakkarai mentally unfit. The film ends with Sakkarai hallucinating Jerry’s presence. Initially, the film had a father character in the lead. was supposed to do the character but could not allocate dates; suggested that the character be changed to a female teacher, and was cast. Nadhiya’s voice was dubbed by . The songs were composed by . Pavithra Srinivasan from wrote that ” does give you a brief, ‘in the school’ feeling; pity that it’s so short-lived”. A critic from wrote that “Debutant director Rohan Krishna’s back to school with tag line ‘relieve your school memories’, is a clean movie that follows the classic format”. Bhama Devi Ravi from wrote that “This one is for the younger generation and is typical Kollywood fare”. A critic from wrote that “The movie could have been a more enjoyable fare had Rohan avoided the cliches”.</p>