The story is that of various interactions in a village. A single mother is struggling to bring up her only daughter, who is now in standard 12. A tailor and his family are their neighbours. This mother has a helper in the form an adopted son, a rowdy but with a nice heart and who is interested in her daughter. A village money lender harassing this mother and daughter because she had borrowed some money from him. A lot of villagers who are directly and indirectly connected to the daily life of this mother and daughter. The clue to the story direction is given early through a news in the paper about the suicide of a school girl. The villagers comment that adolescent girls need only small reasons to end their life. But this clue will not be picked up as it is introduced as a passing remark in the movie. Only on hindsight or after reading this review, will one think of it. Anyway, let me get back to story gist telling– as mentioned above, the story is the interaction between the various characters. It brings forth the action–reaction of the spur of the moment decisions one take selfishly (in Indian context). It also makes the viewer understand that there could be hidden reasons to someone's actions even though it may appear silly on the outside. The movie has a nice story, intimacy, budding romance, family love, guilt and death.
Now for the negatives– the director takes a long time to start the story. I know that if he dives straight into the story, the movie would be finished in less than one hour but he could have cut the time wastage by axing few songs. Those songs hadn't served any purpose than prolonging the movie. Character introduction, which takes bulk of the time at the start of movie, could have been trimmed. You would notice that there were few scenes which were the effect of bad editing. No reason at all to be shown. All in all, one of the better works in Malayalam movie making I have seen since this blog started. My personal rating is 3 out of 5…
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