These complex issues are brilliantly woven around in the seemingly breezy tale of the easy-going-go-lucky boy trying to follow his dream. With a pinch of sarcasm and humour, the male dominant society’s unjustifiable affection towards boys and the way hapless married women are being ‘used’ for ‘producing’ children is portrayed. The star cast boasts of Dulquer Salmaan, son of megastar Mammootty, charming Nithya Menen, Mamukkoya, Siddique and Lena, but legendary actor Thilakan with his fine performance steals the show.Ībdul (Siddique), Faisi’s father, whose desire for a baby boy made his wife deliver more than five times resulting in her untimely death and the gloom and despair writ large on the faces of Abdul and his family members whenever a baby girl was born shows the realism in the script. They say good wine grow stronger as it grows older. This holds true in the case of this septuagenarian who gives a stellar performance. The youthful and glamorous Dulquer has come out of his father’s shadow in the role of Faisi.

Nithya Menen, who appears as Shahna, the friend-cum-lover of Faisi, also shakes a leg to the already-popular foot-tapping number Appangal embadum ottakku.

Cinematographer (S Lokanathan), editor (Praveen Prabhakar), art director (Biju Chandran), costume designer (Sameera Saneesh) and choreographer (Shanker) have managed to keep abreast with the spirit of the movie.

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