I just saw the genre marked for this film everywhere as a romantic comedy. While I can't say it's wrong to call it that and can't say it is any other genre, it still feels weird to call it that. If dissected, the story and a lot of the situations may feel problematic but the film never asks us to take it too seriously. It has a pleasant flow to it in spite of a lot of moments in the story that should usually create more tension. The almost idealistic village setting despite the various characters who shows a lot of different shades became a trope afterwards and even Sathyan Anthikkad himself fails to make it as believable afterwards like his earlier films like these. Thattan Bhaskaran is a character that is representative of all the guys in Kerala who has lost their love mostly due to petty reasons but here he is given a chance to get over it even in front of the eyes of all the village and who else to play it other than Sreenivasan, the icon of the most common unremarkable men in Kerala. A lot of characters are at the edge of becoming problematic creations but Raghunath Paleri's script is brilliant in just making them entertaining and not something more than that to be really problematic. It's really amazing that this film still holds up so much.
Review of Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu
