Old in form and content

Thiruvananthapuram | Sunday | 16th September, 2018

Summary:

One would never know whether the movie was intended as a clever call to return to a good old world, given its insistence on the same old, both in form and content. A darling of the village youth, he receives a rousing welcome. The makers might not have intended it, but this teashop music player, which plays the same old song like a broken record, becomes a representation of the whole film. In fact, we would never know why the only concern of the entire village is ‘Hariettan’. Hari, alias Hariettan, (Mammootty), an affluent businessman abroad, comes back to settle down in his native village..