The production house AVM has usually been associated with big-budget films(like Sivaji) with big stars in the past. For a while now, they have also been involved in producing television serials and it looks like they mistook A Aa E Ee to be a television serial rather than a movie. With poor production values, a regressive storyline and an uncharismatic cast, the film has very little going for it.

Subramaniyam(Prabhu), a widower, is the head of his family, which includes his younger brother and his wife, and their daughter Eeswari(Saranya Mohan). When his daughter Anita(Monica) returns after completing her studies in Chennai, Subramaniyam is overjoyed and fixes her marriage with Elango(Arvind Akash), the son of Venkatachalam(Haneefa). But Anita, whose romance with Akash(Navdeep) in Chennai didn't end well, confides in Elango and tells him that she doesn't want to get married.

The setting in Prabhu's house immediately marks A Aa E Ee as an old-fashioned movie. It houses a large family but the characters have no individuality and so the sense of camaraderie that made the family-related sequences enjoyable in films like Mahesh Saranya Matrum Palar is missing here. Instead we get long discourses by Prabhu on the merits of ayurveda(not sure how the foreigners listening to him understand what he's saying in Tamil) and song sequences and fashion shows involving the same foreigners, who are pretty poor actors and look really uncomfortable.

The film sets up a couple of conflicts but never leaves us in any doubt about how they will be resolved. Right from the first meeting between Arvind and Saranya, we know exactly who is going to end up with who. And though there is mild surprise when Navdeep dumps Monica, the surprise doesn't last long. So there is never any suspense or tension throughout the movie and the question is simply when things will be resolved and not how.

The film creates a scenario like the one in Jodi or Poovellaam Kettuppaar>) where Navdeep enters Prabhu's household. But we never buy into the situation since the reason for it is rather shaky. Monica could easily come out with the truth to her dad and her continuing silence simply comes across as something to pad the running time. Also, the fact that A Aa E Ee never exploits the situation for laughs or sentiments like those aforementioned movies makes it difficult to overlook the weak reason behind it.

Arvind Akash is quite low-key but not in a good way. Monica is forced to be solemn most of the time while the ubiquitous Saranya Mohan puts her bright smile to good use in her now-familiar way. Compared to them, Navdeep is energetic and his entry provides a much-needed spark of energy to the film. But then he overdoes it and earns our irritation by the time the second half comes around. Prabhu is dignified in a role not much different from the kind of roles he is doing these days.