<p>The story is absolutely not the right pick for Director P Sukumar to make a decent debut. From the beginning till end, the plot has very little to offer other than media bashing.<br /><br />To do that the writer hinges it on to 80’s period and we see a media (print) world sans mobile phone, TV, internet or even proper mode of transit. <br />Dileep, Ashokan, and Ganesh Kumar are among the slew of reporters who are engaged in a rat race for scoops. <br /><br />Unni Madhavan (Dileep), a prolific reporter with a petty Malayalam daily, goes through the hard times of marital life. Virtually a pawn in the hands of management, news editor (Innocent) behaves haughtily and keeps Unni cheesed off with calls about assignments. <br /><br />Professionally hard-pressed, he finds almost no time to tend to his fully pregnant wife (Gopika). The information that literary icon Palazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Nedumudi Venu) is on deathbed comes as a double-whammy for Unni. Jurnos, huddle around the house of Pillai, only for that big news (of death). <br /><br />For Unni, the literary giant is a childhood inspiration...to whom he is emotionally connected. But, expediency overrules sentiments and he is tempted to set those subtle feelings aside.<br /><br />The first half has some tempo, but it slackens in the second part. Henceforth, the plot looks as bleak as the frames look dull. Gopika easily enacts the sufferings of a woman’s prenatal complications. Innocent impresses with his populist gestures and dialogues.<br /><br />Jagathy (as a canny teashop owner) and Salim Kumar (as a news photographer who moseys around mindless of his duties) look interesting. But Hari Sree Ashokan’s comedy appears stereotyped and a mere din.</p>
<p>The story is absolutely not the right pick for Director P Sukumar to make a decent debut. From the beginning till end, the plot has very little to offer other than media bashing.<br /><br />To do that the writer hinges it on to 80’s period and we see a media (print) world sans mobile phone, TV, internet or even proper mode of transit. <br />Dileep, Ashokan, and Ganesh Kumar are among the slew of reporters who are engaged in a rat race for scoops. <br /><br />Unni Madhavan (Dileep), a prolific reporter with a petty Malayalam daily, goes through the hard times of marital life. Virtually a pawn in the hands of management, news editor (Innocent) behaves haughtily and keeps Unni cheesed off with calls about assignments. <br /><br />Professionally hard-pressed, he finds almost no time to tend to his fully pregnant wife (Gopika). The information that literary icon Palazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Nedumudi Venu) is on deathbed comes as a double-whammy for Unni. Jurnos, huddle around the house of Pillai, only for that big news (of death). <br /><br />For Unni, the literary giant is a childhood inspiration...to whom he is emotionally connected. But, expediency overrules sentiments and he is tempted to set those subtle feelings aside.<br /><br />The first half has some tempo, but it slackens in the second part. Henceforth, the plot looks as bleak as the frames look dull. Gopika easily enacts the sufferings of a woman’s prenatal complications. Innocent impresses with his populist gestures and dialogues.<br /><br />Jagathy (as a canny teashop owner) and Salim Kumar (as a news photographer who moseys around mindless of his duties) look interesting. But Hari Sree Ashokan’s comedy appears stereotyped and a mere din.</p>
