Review: Writer-director Althaf Salim’s Odum Kuthira Chadum Kuthira will put you in thinking mode from the start. Why did Fahadh Faasil do this movie? Did Kalyani Priyadarshan do it because Fahadh was in it? Why is there no cohesiveness to the story?
You get the drift… and this is the most entertaining part of the film, which is probably the most chemistry-less romcom. Aby (Fahadh) goes into a coma, on the day he is set to get engaged to Nidhi (Kalyani), after coming to the barath on a horse, per her request. Anyway, after waiting a year, just as she finally thinks she might give into parental pressure and marry someone else, Aby wakes up, but there is a misunderstanding and they go their separate ways.
Then, Aby goes to Bengaluru and ‘saves’ a woman he thinks is trying to kill herself. Then, as they get talking, we don't know if there is romance brewing; like we really don't know, because the filmmaker doesn't seem to have the interest to explore that. By then, after watching scene after incohesive scene, we are rewarded with an interval.
The singular most upsetting thing is that every single character, including the female lead, seems to be written in with a mental disorder, without explanation. Anyway, after some more romantic confusions, the film ends, without really elevating itself at any point.