On paper, Saa Boo Thiri sounds like an ambitious endeavor since it features multiple storylines, each of which deals with a particular facet of love. But as the title and the opening voiceover indicate, the concept is not treated with the seriousness it deserves. With no tonal consistency between the tracks, the movie lurches between being a romantic comedy, a marital drama and a sex comedy and predictably, ends up with none of those making a strong impact.

Balakrishnan(Akshay), Keerthi(Prajan) and Pal(Arshad Khan) live in the same apartment complex and are friends. Bala is in love with Sherin(Pinky) but his parents fix his marriage with Lekha. He manages to sidestep that but becomes friends with Lekha. Keerthi is married to Jo(Sarah), who is also a software professional like him but but the couple finds the love slipping away from their marriage and starts looking for it in other places. Pal(Arshad Khan) hates girls as he lusts after older women but Priya is madly in love with him and yearns for the day when he will reciprocate her feelings.

Akshay's track starts off disappointingly with an awkward and silly declaration and acceptance of love but gets better to become the most interesting among the trio of stories. Its interesting the way he pushes something away and then ends up wanting exactly the same thing and his story illustrates the unpredictable nature of love quite well. The reactions of the people around him to his vacillations are natural and as a result, his conversations with them are quite realistic. On the other hand, the tale of Prajan and Sarah opens well as it portrays the contrasting nature of love before and after marriage but doesn't sustain this. There is an unnecessary detour into silly comedy before it recovers with an interesting - but predictable - situation. The situation doesn't lead to the expected fireworks but the low-key end is still effective.

Arshad Khan's track is the least effective of the three. Priya's love for him doesn't have any basis and his eventual change isn't given a strong reason either. So the track seems to have been included only to up the vulgarity quotient. While the other tracks have a smattering of double entendre dialogs and jokes, this track is packed with them. Like Boys, it uses Arshad's fixation on 'aunties' as the basis for a number of both explicit and suggestive sequences. While some of the jokes raise some chuckles, most are too brazen and crass and only makes us cringe.

Most movies that feature multiple storylines surprise us with some intersections between the tracks. These could be characters that appear in more than 1 of the tracks, events that affect all the tracks, etc. With Akshay, Prajan and Arshad Khan being friends, the movie announces the link between the tracks right at the beginning. There is one surprise connection between two of the tracks but it is telegraphed in a forced manner as a character's face is hidden from us artificially. So the revelation when it comes isn't much of a surprise and only confuses things with respect to that character.

Prajan and Sara are the most impressive in the cast though that is mainly because their characters are allowed more depth than the others. They both manage to express the feelings of a couple that knows what they are missing but don't know what to do about it. Akshay plays the loverboy well enough and Arshad Khan pretty much plays the role of a comedian.