Summary:
As Pinku, Basil Joseph is unbeatable, both with his performance and dialogue delivery, in the gangster comedy that makes maximum use of the rustic Thiruvananthapuram dialect. “The makers (of Padayottam) wanted to go beyond a caricature of the Thiruvananthapuram dialect and capture its little nuances. That the techie-turned-actor-director is not new to the capital city is clear from his act. So there’s always a likeability factor for the Thiruvananthapuram dialect. ThiruvananthapuramThe rib-tickling helter skelter that propels Padayottam forward in its comedy of errors springs from a single incident: Pinku getting roughed up..