It’s not just Mahesh who lazily wants to borrow from others, the show does too. It might have been the length of the show or all the build-up to Mahesh’s irritation with his father, but when this moment arrives, it all feels too easy.

A neighbour lectures the father-loathing Mahesh about the sacrifices made by his father, and voila, he is transformed into a loving son. Instead of setting up situations that answer these questions interestingly, the show packs the resolutions into one big lecture about the sacrifice made by parents to raise their kids. To what extent will Mahesh go to pay off the loan? What is the consequence of waiting around finding your passion? How will a homemaker, unaware of the world outside, make money? Can parents have dreams of their own? This premise has the potential to open up a number of interesting questions. What the family goes through while trying to pay off this loan and what that does to Mahesh makes the rest of the show. His happy-go-lucky life is rudely disrupted when his father, Haridas (Naresh), passes away suddenly and a loan that he took falls on the family’s head. Yet, he never actively does anything to achieve that (except of course, waiting on the terrace everyday to stare at her). His life’s mission is to marry his neighbour Keerthy (Simran Sharma). Most of all, he feels entitled to all of this. He hangs around the house or the local pan shop, has no interest in finding a job and likes to be handed things on a silver platter.

The show begins by introducing Mahesh (Sangeeth Shobhan) as an unambitious, B.Tech failing, jobless son about whom his father is worried.

Sontham movie dialogue writer