‘Priyan Ottathilanu’ movie review: Manages to work, despite the overdose of feel-goodness

By the point Priyan Ottathilanu ends, one is left questioning in regards to the contents of the numerous movie scripts that Priyadharshan, the protagonist, has stored safely inside an previous field. For here’s a man, who’s working round fixing the issues of any individual he comes throughout, that it could be a miracle if he will get the time to sit down down and write even a web page a day.

As if to clarify this, there’s a blink-and-miss scene of him trying to put in writing a script at night time. In one other scene, he tells somebody that he derives inspiration to put in writing from the many individuals and circumstances that he comes throughout every day. Not like the character, the screenwriter duo of Abhayakumar and Anil Kurian will need to have had fairly an inexpensive period of time to weave collectively a script which stays partaking, even when it doesn’t have any main conflicts or out-of-the-box parts.

Their protagonist Priyan (Sharafudheen), a homeo physician and an aspiring scriptwriter, comes throughout as the one downside solver in all the locality. His fingers are full around the clock, with all the pieces from the flat’s drainage downside to points confronted by random folks he meets on the highway touchdown up on his shoulder, a lot in order that he has hardly any time left for his household, or himself.

In his sophomore effort after C/O Saira Banu, director Antony Sony banks on the story of this man who takes selflessness to unbelievable limits. Though riddled with moments which appear to be written to exploit the feel-good issue, the script nonetheless manages to hook the viewers to get them to run together with Priyan, making his issues their very own.

The movie focuses totally on the happenings of a single day, when he’s required to deal with fairly just a few of those issues collectively. The character of Priscilla (Nyla Usha), who’s battling psychological well being points, is launched seemingly so as to add yet another obstruction to his path. Though the character doesn’t have a fantastic backstory, the altering contours of her interactions with Priyan livens up the latter half.

However at no level does one get the impression that Priyan is dealing with an insurmountable job, as he proceeds from fixing one concern to a different; an impression which works towards the movie. Priyan’s cousin (Biju Sopanam), portrayed as a tough character, at occasions comes throughout because the sanest of the lot, particularly throughout a compromise speak presided over by a ‘non secular guru’.

Sharafudheen, who has efficiently damaged out of his earlier mould of comic, comes up with one other memorable efficiency after Aarkkariyam. Regardless of the overdose of feel-goodness, Priyan Ottathilanu manages to maintain the viewers engaged.

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