Film Review : Padavettu

Director Liju Krishna's Nivin Pauly, Aditi Balan starrer Padavettu ( Malayalam) released in Tamil in theatres on Oct 28th. The protagonist Ravi ( Nivin Pauly) lives in Maloor village with his aunt Pushpa. He was once an athlete but after an injury, has made his a sour and brooding, jobless person. He harbours feelings for Shyma (Aditi Balan) a recent divorcee. Things rapidly change in the village with the entry of Kuyyali ( Shammi Thilakan in a brilliant act) and his political party, who repair Pushpa's dilapidated home as a freebie and from then on, slowly establish a political foothold into the lives of the farmers and start manipulating them on a large scale. Things begin to get out of hand and the carefree Ravi is soon forced to rekindle his fighting spirit and take on the greedy politician affecting his life and his people, and stop him in his tracks. Does he succeed? The vignettes of life in the small village and its peop...