The producers of Jab We Met Shree Ashtavinayak , which had excellent camerawork by Nutty has rewarded him by making him a hero in a Tamil film! The poor Tamilnadu audiences have to bear the torture of watching Nutty, who lacks screen presence.

On the other hand director Udayabhanu Maheswaran's Chakravyuham is a fairly decent thriller, based on an 80's Hindi film. Sandhya (Daisy Bopanna) is a BPO worker who lives with her 10 year old nephew.

She is picked and dropped by a Call Taxi driver Kanna (Nataraj), and soon they fall in love. Meanwhile Sandhya's brother, an Income Tax officer and a racketeer is murdered in Kolkatta. In Kolkatta she discovers that two goons are after her, for the money that her brother stole during a tax raid.

A cop (Jayasurya) comes to her rescue, and soon Kanna joins her. However she discovers that good guys have dirty hands, as she drawn into a web full of intrigue, murder and greed.

Among the plus points is the camera of Dwaraknath, who has been able to bring out the ugly side of Kolkatta's underbelly and a racy narration by Udayabhanu.

Karthik Raja's music is a let down, while Daisy looks too bloated when compared to the pencil thin Nataraj and on-screen they don't gel.

In the first half Nataraj speaks and acts like a poor man's mono- act of Rajinikanth in Baasha.

No two ways about it, the film is an unmitigated endurance test.

Verdict: Below Average