A long time back, Visu used to churn out movies with regularity. His movies followed the standard formula of a middle class family beset with problems that Visu, either from the outside or inside, had to solve. Predictably, the movies had a niche audience of mostly women and were usually modest successes. Having gotten busy on the small screen with his popular Arattai Arangam, Visu has stayed away from the big screen, just appearing in the occasional movie as an actor. With Sigamani Ramamani he takes up the directorial baton again.

Sigamani(S.V.Sekhar) is a man caught between four women - his wife Ramamani(Urvasi), his sister(Manorama), his mother and his daughter. With none of them getting along with each other, his life is a living hell and to get away from it all, he runs away. He finds a job as a manager at a marriage hall owned by Sundaramoorthy(Visu). Sundaramoorthy too has had four women in his life but his experiences having been the exact opposite, he worships the four women. So he tries to help Sigamani set things right in his home.

Inspite of the long gap since his last movie Sagalakala Sammandhi, Visu has definitely not changed with the times. At the same time, he shows no signs of having lost his touch either and all the trademarks of a Visu film, good or bad, are seen here. The movie is for the most part a comedy, with some sentiments thrown in at different spots. It is made on a shoestring budget and is a short step away from being mistaken for a stage drama. It features both funny and sharp dialogs and has a huge cast of known but small-time actors with Visu himself is at the center of it all, spouting philosophies and solving problems.

While Visu's films usually mix both comedy and sentiments adeptly, what saves Sigamani Ramamani is the comedy. It is the clear winner with several of Visu's lines finding their mark. While there are no dedicated sequences aimed purely at getting laughs, several of the lines uttered by S.V.Sekhar and Urvasi are hilarious. The ways Urvasi puts down her mother-in-law and sister-in-law are usually caustic but amusing and her reactions to Manorama's oft-repeated story are funny. But there are misses as well with S.V.Sekhar's short stint in the hospital, with Anumohan as a confused compounder with dreams of becoming a poet, being one of them.

Visu balances the field for the males too during his argument with S.V.Sekhar. The dialogs during this portion are sharp, with S.V.Sekhar trying to illustrate his problems and Visu contradicting them with his own experiences. But Visu's own flashback is a little overdone, with the compulsion to use four women resulting in a completely superfluous character(having Srividya, in an 'Auviyaar'-like makeup, perform this role seems like an even bigger crime). While there is a message hidden in the movie, the solutions Visu provides to solve S.V.Sekhar's problems seem too convenient and narrow and focussed.

Visu impresses with his usual style of dialog delivery. S.V.Sekhar as the harried husband, gets only a few chances to make us laugh but makes use of them well. Urvasi is the star of the show and makes us laugh even as she is fighting with her relations. Manorama is reliable as always while R.Sunderrajan is on hand to earn some sympathy. Chandrabose shows up as a music director after a long gap but is likely to go back to the same state of unemployment considering his work here.