It's always hard to understand how a film with a brilliantly scripted plot, perfect comic timing and hilarious one-liners can ultimately fail to strike a note with the audience. Fortunately Manmatha has none of these, so there's nothing hard to understand about it. The film is about a young man who makes it his life's mission to brutally murder adulterous women and burn their bodies. If you are wondering why, well, he has to do something with the bodies, right?
Let's begin at the beginning. Mythili (Jyothika) has a nightmare that she is raped by Madan (Simbu), whom she do....