Padma

I really wanted to give this movie a better rating. Because it has got a good script, and excellent performances by all the actors. Surabhi Lakshmi, Maala Parvathi, and Dinesh Prabhakar were exceptional. Surabhi's performance is the backbone of the movie. But the weakness of the movie is that it is terribly slow and unnecessarily drawn out, especially the last act. Anoop Menon is a good writer but he is not by far a good director; he should have left that job to someone else (like V. K. Prakash with whom he has worked in "Beautiful" and "Trivandrum Lodge"). My rating for the screenplay is 8/10 and direction is 2/10, so averaging the two, the movie score becomes 5/10.