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Director: Rama Narayanan
Cast: Prabhu, S.V. Shekhar, Vadivelu, Roja, Urvashi, Kovai Sarala, Vivek, Murhty, Alphonsa and Master Mahendran.
The title may mislead one to think
that it is a mythological film, but it is far from it. It is the
name of the three male protagonists in the film - Prabhu, Shekhar
and Vadivelu. And you have here Lalita, Padmini 
and
Ragini too. Wrong guess again! The names referred to here are not
those of the famed '‘Travancore sisters’, but of the
siblings played by Roja, Urvashi and Kovai Sarala. With such
confusion, one almost knows what to expect from this film.
This is director Rama Narayanan’s 100th film and he has stayed true to his form. One can never accuse him of inconsistency. He has been a very consistent director all along. Consistently giving films that are no great shakes in the story department, a narrative style that could have done with some finesse and a star cast that one would not swoon over. This film too falls into the same pattern.
The story centers round three sisters, their parents and the three men in their lives. The father is a watchman at a big bungalow. The sisters live in a world of make-believe, always dreaming of being rich and marrying some rich tycoons. They are a flippant, superficial trio, reverent and disrespectful to their parents. The bungalow’s owner being abroad, the trio persuades their father that they should be allowed to stay there and enjoy, till the owner returned home.
Time for the heroes to make their entry. The three men are unemployed, financially weak and kicked out of their lodging. Pretending to be wealthy men, they hire out the top portion of the bungalow. The sisters, who pose as the owners of the place, zero in on them. And before they realise it, the men find themselves married to the girls. The guys are in for a shock on their wedding night when they are kicked out of their bedrooms. The girls had wanted to make sure of their financial affairs and learning how they have been duped, had reacted in fury. The guys too realise how they have been conned into believing they were heiresses. The next few reels is about how the men ‘reform’ their women. The men need some reforming too, but that’s a matter the director hasn’t touched upon!
There are twists in the plot. Like the three guys suddenly turning up with Rs. Three crores; an old man turning up and claiming to be the father of one of the sisters, and so on. Nothing very complicated. For, the director always makes movies for the lowest denominator in the audience, who can’t fail to catch up with what’s happening.