Skip / watch at your own risk. Trailer
The eco-friendly cloth posters show Vinayakan coming out of the waters with a spear giving us hope of a meaty titular role, depth in character etc, etc, one can have so many expectations from a poster of a Kamal film featuring Vinayakan!! The film introduces him as Poseidon/Aquaman (I’m not even being sarcastic here) with a born in the sea origin story, running on the white sands of the ocean bed lying in wait for that biiiiiig shark. In Malayalam film nostalgia, he is the Pullimurugan of this Kavaratti seashore. But … Even Dileesh Pothan’s presence does nothing to elevate this film to “let’s watch it for the scenery in Lakshadweep.”
The film is a roll of cliches, trying to fit into the new generation age with an 80/90s love story of a boy meets girl, with a problematic past. All of the main leads, the love birds (the pranayana meenukal, it should be them, I guess) included have their individual introductions. But, intros alone do not make a plot interesting! The scriptwriter & director in Kamal needs to understand stalking a person with or without a mobile phone, taking their pictures and videos in reel & real is an offence.
Dear Censor Board, I wonder if you were sleeping while you passed this film with such inept content. Where were the warning flash messages saying stalking is a social offence! Your commitment to society especially in an age where the WCC has been organized in the Malayalam film industry to empower, educate, enrich women in/inside cinema is questionable!
I didn’t for a moment find it cute that the island girl falls heads over heels in love with the stalker boy from the mainland Calicut soon after the lip lock under duress underwater. So …
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