Abhimanyu, nicknamed Vattavada after his native place near Munnar, is everybody's friend. He understands hunger and poverty. He also believes that hardwork and education is his way out of it. This is his story of finding his calling against fascism and communalism.
Maharajas College in Ernakulam has offered quite many stories to Malayalam cinema; political, comedy, and what not. In no uncertain terms, 'Naan Petta Makan' is a film with a clearly etched politics against fascism.
Saji S Palamel is a good storyteller. He makes you see and feel much more than he bothers to spell it out, and that makes for good storytelling. There could hardly have been a better actor than Minion to play Abhimanyu. He nails Abhimanyu's disarmingly charming and yet haunting laugh to the T, though the acting is a little rough on the edges. So is Joy Mathew as Nelson Christo, the living communist martyr. In traditional Malayalam cinema style, the leftist student union is SFY, the other student unions are also barely camouflaged as ABSP and KSF respectively. The rustic SFY comrade, the polished-like-a-penny KSU leader, and the saffron-ised ABSP members, are all stereotypes we see around us. The music by Bijibal Maniyil lifts the narrative, as do the visuals by Kunjunni S Kumar.
With little pomp and posh, the first half concludes as Abhi comes into his identity as a do-gooder and a Communist.
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