Lawyers and college students usually get a bad rap in our movies but Sooriyan Satta Kalloori tries to say something positive about both those groups with a story about a college student - a future lawyer - who respects the law and is ready to do anything to uphold it. Unfortunately, it fails in both its goals. While its lead character is bland and uninteresting, its story takes a convoluted, illogical route to convey its message.

Sooriyanarayanan(Kajni), who is attending Law College, is a model student and as Chairman of the Student Council, he insists that the other students follow the same standards. Mahalakshmi(Mithra), a new student, falls for him. Sooriyan initiates a proposal for instituting a national 'Best Student' award and travels to Delhi to submit it to the Government. At the same time, a rowdy Vetrivel(Pavan) gains admission in the college and wastes no time in indulging in rowdy acts. So Sooriyan tries to set him right after getting back.

Tamil cinema portrays colleges in a pretty bad light with the students whiling away their time in everything except studying and the teachers being little more than objects of ridicule. With the hero being a model student, that situation is somewhat rectified here but the film ruins it by taking things to the other extreme. As Kajni lays down rules and the students sing and dance to celebrate Teacher's Day, everything is silly and unrealistic. And though we are not treated to another College Culturals, its replacement - a kuthu song sequence where the girls are also dressed up like rowdies - is terrible.

Its the bad guy who saves the day. While his antics aren't any different from those of the bad students in any campus movie, they end up injecting some energy amidst the dullness induced by the idealistic hero and his uninteresting romance with Mithra. The subsequent twist makes Pavan's track even more interesting. Some of the ways, like the scene where he tries to mediate between them on the phone, in which he plays Kajni are fun and the director has used the situation better than the way Murugadoss used a similar scenario in Ghajini. The way Pavan's game is finally revealed is too simple but its good fun while it lasts.

The climax, which happens predictably in a courtroom, tries to put across the message of the movie but does it in the worst way possible. The happenings aren't very logical and the judge's decision doesn't make sense considering the events and the pedigrees of the people involved in it. And in his single-minded attempt to bring out the hero's character and ideals, the director destroys the other characters. Radharavi's actions are particularly sad since they not only lower his stature but also go against the message of the movie.

Kajni is not even close to hero material and is one of the main reasons why we almost end up siding with the villain! He is wooden and has one fixed expression throughout. Mithra barely makes an expression with very little screen time and a marginal role. Pavan enjoys himself and though he hams a bit, it seems necessary considering the dull proceedings otherwise. 'Ganja' Karuppu tries in vain to get some laughs as a librarian who mistakenly refers to himself as a lesbian and its a relief as he disappears after a few sequences. M.S.Bhaskar predictably plays a harried teacher.