Nadikar

The movie is average.

Speaking about the performance Tovino did justice to his role. The look and performance of Tovino is awesome.

Soubin, Suresh Krishna and other actors were good.

Madhu Pal character was serious one but felt like comedy in some places.

There is no base story line. The script is weak.

It shows a Super Star life. And to help him to get better with acting.

I don't know with no strong story line , without a good entertainment thing why movies are made.

My stars for only Tovino who was awesome.

Its better to make movies which has some base story line. Audience need some meaningful cinema.

The story, few scenes, cinematography all were promising, and acting and commitment of Tovino was commendable - but writing, screenplay and direction wasted the opportunity!

There was considerable buzz around the movie and I admit, my expectations were a tad high going into the movie; which could be why I felt that much more disappointed.

But in all honesty, the writing was really poor and lazy - a good filmaker shows and never tells ! And for drama telling totally spoils the experience and you end up not connecting or feeling what the scenes are intended to say.

Supporting characters including Bhavana, Soubin were under utilized.

It is sad that Tovino's acting and basic interesting premise was wasted.

I will definitely kill him whoever made the trailer of this movie. Only because of this trailer I went to watch this film. It was such a nice trailer. It is a movie that I thought should not be seen considering the make of Honey Bee and Hi I'm Tony of Lal Jr.

I must say a very bad experience. A movie within a movie that tries to present some of the problems faced by a leading actor. Tovino did a good job in whatever role he was given. Suresh Krishna was also good. Some graphics, some VFX and some other items are shown together. Tovino in Thallumala was even better. Soubin, who teaches acting also did justice to his role.

Sorry Athijeevitha fans..According to me Bhavana should stop acting, there were only a few scenes for her, and that was not good at all. Social media and tik tok girls are far better to play a role of hero's girlfriend..I feel so sorry for her.

I don't recommend this movie to anyone.

Nadikar

In one line,a story that could have been made better with a good script but lacked enough strength in the screenplay to keep the audience emotionally connected to the movie.

The story is about an actor who becomes an overnight sensation with his initial movies,gets obsessed to the stardom,fame due to his immature nature and arrogant attitude towards his colleagues losing track in career and his deliberate attempt to regain it back.

The first half of the movie takes us through the stardom, popularity of the cinema fraternity. We can see Tovino getting lost in the world of stardom,booze,drugs,girls and he loses his girlfriend Ann Bhama,played by Bhavana due to his immature attitude. He gets into ego clash with a senior filmmaker and got tagged as a trouble maker in the industry now wants a industry hit somehow. His Personal Secretary/Manager seeing his situation advises him to take help of an acting groomer but he initially opposed due to the stardom factor on his head. Unwillingly he shakes hands with the character played by Soubin Shahir,a theatre actor with accreditation from international circles. His attempt to coach Tovino was a failure due to his arrogance and dominant behaviour towards the groomers ideology of All are actors and there are no superstars.

Second half of the movie shows where David Padikkal reflects on his past and tries to make consensus with the ones he had issues with and takes a determined effort to improve his career rather than sticking on to the stardom. We can see director taking the audience through his broken childhood and trauma he had faced which have led to the formation of an arrogance and carefree attitude in David Padikkal.

All actors have performed their part but there is nothing excited in the story at all. The movie is very well predictable and has cliche dialogues. Bhavana has only few shots in the movie and no avenues to enhance her performance. Tovino and Suresh Krishna's outlook and appearance was interesting.

Rating - 2.75/5.

I like the plot of the movie, which is cinema inside cinema, and we have witnessed such films before, but this is slightly different. I see a lot of resemblances to multiple movies like "Thallumala," "Driving Licence," "Saroj Kumar," and "Udayananutharam." Since the movie deals with a superstar sensation and their lifestyle, they successfully portrayed it on screen. The first half of the movie is very engaging; I liked it. A shout out to Ekta, the costume designer of the movie. She has done a brilliant job. There are a couple of scenes that went below average in the first half, especially Ganapathi's scene. I felt like he couldn't pull off the character. Talking about Bhavana's character, it was neutral, which didn't give any impact to the movie. In the climax of the movie, they were trying to communicate an emotional story between real and reel characters, which didn't work out for me personally. If they had switched the climax to something else, it would have been much better. You won't regret watching this in theaters.