Screenwriter Crazy Mohan was a master of "verbal confusion." The jokes in Panchathanthiram are not slapstick; they are intellectual. Take the hospital scene where Ramaraj tries to explain "Angina" but the friends mishear it as "Aunty Gina." The linguistic puns work perfectly in Tamil. Even the villain’s name—"Rangoon Shanmugam"—is hilarious.