See no evil, hear no evil is a Hollywood movie about a blind man and a deaf man joining hands. It was both clever and funny and a success at the box-office. Now we get a Tamil movie with the same theme but clever and funny are not two words that could be even remotely associated with this attempt. Unfortunately the words that really came to mind while watching the movie cannot be printed here!

Aandipatti(Pandiyarajan), a blind man, and Arasampatti(Mansur Ali Khan), a deaf man, both have their own problems back home. So they run away to Madras and start a paan shop. When a member of a terrorist group stops at the shop, he is killed by another member and unknown to them, the small vial that he was carrying ends up with them. So the duo are chased by the remaining members of the group for the vial while the police also end up on their trail thinking that they are responsible for murdering the terrorist.

It must be possible to make an interesting Tamil movie about a blind man and a deaf man joining hands while they unknowingly become targets of kidnappers and the police. But Aandipatti Arasampatti is definitely not it! In fact, the most surprising aspect of the movie is that it fails to milk a single genuinely funny joke or fashion even a marginally clever incident out of this concept. Right from the casting to the screenplay to the jokes, the movie does not get a single factor right. While the attempted comedy sequences are slapstick and amateurish, leading us to think that the movie may be targetting kids, the raunchy dance sequences and several scenes with Vilasini make that impossible too.

A sure sign of a director's paucity of ideas is the number of superflous scenes he thrusts into the movie in order to pad the running time. This movie is chockful of such scenes that are painfully obvious as attempts to make up for lack of ideas as part of the main story. So we get sideshows like tours of the sights in Madras(under the pretext of Pandiarajan and Mansur coming to Madras for the first time) and MGR's museum. The fact that Mansur has to explain everything that is on display to Pandiarajan only adds to the time. Another even more ridiculous scene we get is Alex dressing up in a few of Sivaji Ganesan more famous roles. This is done under the pretext of his constable dreaming this!!

Pandiarajan has little in his acting arsenal other rolling his eyes with a guilty look('thiruttu muzhi') and there is only so many times(once!) that he can do that before its gets repetitive. Mansur Ali Khan is woefully miscast as an innocent, deaf man. The actor can evoke laughs with his dialog delivery as a villain but is out of step in this purely comic role. Manorama, for a change, gets to brandish an aruvaal instead of her usual crying. Senthil appears towards the end in a surprising role but has little to do. The new faces playing the bad guys barely register.