Tamil cinema has not really sung the praises of the ‘middle-bencher’ as much as it has talked about the last or the first benchers. Kootathil Oruthan tries to paint an entertaining picture of people in this segment. And how it tries to do that is very interesting. Aravind (Ashok Selvan), your average middle-bencher, is so nondescript that even his teacher asks him which class he belongs to. A middle child who lives a rather unremarkable life, he gets his first praise from Janani (Priya Anand), because of which he falls for her. He takes up the same course as her, and  what follows is your regular Tamil romance of a boy…