Soundscape was impressive with it's subduedness. Rustic dated instruments.
Movie is designed as a fable tale, aligned with the subject. Lot of care has gone into all the technical aspects to bring in visual and sound frames that capture the canvas of the movie.
Unfortunately, the subtitles spoiled some of it. Tasteless bland font did blemish all the care that went into the costumes, art design, landscape, language, sound work.
Mohanlal has done excellent action work for his age. Action is very artistically done - blending in story telling, sound design, costumes, action choreography, art design.
Mohanlal has sung couple of songs which he should not have done. His singing does not suit the ambience of the movie. Too timid for the all powerful protagonist.
The story line had fable-like quality to it, and reminded me of Aitihyamala stories. There were a few dragging spots in the script. Build up for the second part was good but also felt a little made up.
Cinematography and lighting work has been excellent. There was a painting like quality to the frames as opposed to the overly stylish and loud style that is typical. Same holds for the background scores. Careful thought out work.
The movie excelled in many aspects. Subtitles was the one thing that disappointed. There were spots where subtitles showed but dialogue did not come out. Now that is a mistake. I would have stylized the font to match the canvas.
The language use in the songs and dialogues have been kept folk like, and unembellished.
Not a movie for everyone. There is enough art to appreciate here.
