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…

What is the relationship writers have with their work? Do they live vicariously through the characters they create or perhaps, each character has a part of the writer within them? Uru attempts to answer this question with a line that goes,”Orey nerathula ellara maariyum irukanumna adhu oru ezhuthalanaaladhaan mudiyum.” The writer of this film, Vicky Anand (who also doubles up as the director) proves that this is not just a throwaway line, by making you feel he has pervaded into the minds of each of the characters he introduces in the film. Jeevan (Kalaiarasan) is a writer. In the opening scenes of the movie, we learn that he has gone from…