The script in this film is a big let-down. The first half of the film is really trying on the audience because it focuses heavily on the Vishal-Kajal romance which is extremely insipid and badly written. Kajal appears for some scenes and a few songs and her acting (or lack thereof) doesn’t impress you.

The end — like the beginning — adopts an atypical, downbeat note, as the camera again slinks back into the sky from where it originally descended for the opening scene. But for what Paayum Puli actually is, they may as well have began and ended amid kuthu beats and much fanfare.