Beautifully tried to start a trend in Malayalam cinema by speaking in more bolder and open ways than ever before. Though the film was appreciated much, none of our filmmakers had the guts to contemplate the thoughts with similar flicks. But now the same team of V K P and Anoop Menon is getting bolder, taking and generating heat about unconcealed sexuality, discussing and reflecting thoughts that are generally considered taboo in a highly hypocritical society. And the results are pretty encouraging, continuous applause for those quality minds for talking straight. Yes, the crew deserves it, hats off Anoop Menon, Jayasuriya and V K P for offering this unusual movie.
The movie opens with that much discussed helicam shots of old 'Trivandrum Lodge', occupying a hot spot at the beautiful backwaters of Kochy, where a host of unrelated people had been taking an abode for long, away from their families. The inmates ranges from the music teacher Relton (Janardhanan), Peggy (Sukumari) who runs a small hotel there to provide food to all inmates, Sunil Vellayani (Saiju Kurup), editor of a film magazine, Abdhu (Jayasuriya)- an uneducated, illiterate orphan, Adv Kora (Balachandran), wannabe film star Sagar (Arun), and a group of mimicry artists. The ancient hotel belongs to the realtor Ravishankar, who is maintaining it following a word that he had given to his deceased wife Malavika (Bhavana).
As usual with the group of younger males, the discussions in the hotel are more centred on the urge for sex
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