Mammootty looks fabulous as usual but you do not see the mega star in this film but only the ‘uncle’. However, with good music, amazing visuals and thought-provoking dialogues, the director manages to make it up. The tale though thrilling lags on occasion. While cinematographer Azhakappan takes us on a journey through the wilderness of Wayanad and Gundlupt, Joy Mathew skilfully questions, introspects and sometimes even lectures on some murky attitudes of the society. They shout out to the world that if they have the guts, nothing can break them - neither a video clip nor moral policing.
Women in the movie are agents of change - respected and strong, sometimes outwitting men.
This film even becomes reference material on how to make sexism-free content. Here he says, “The world may be having bad men but not all are bad.” If anyone thinks that it is not the function of films to educate the society, actor-director Joy Mathew, through wonderfully written dialogues and script, proves them wrong. Mammootty, through KK, provides answers to certain questions that were raised during the infamous Kasaba dialogue row. While people in the society go on being sceptical about the things happening around, where are we heading to? Asks the movie. There is this girl, a true reflection of every girl child in the contemporary scenario, who even when she asserts that she trusts her co-traveller keeps getting nervous and insecure intermittently. There is a father and mother who cannot even trust their own shadows when it comes to the safety of their daughters. Uncle holds a mirror to the society and to the minds of those around.
There are moral cops, there are innocent souls and there are sceptical minds. As the movie progresses, the true colours of the various individuals emerge. There is also the mother of Sruthy (Muthumani) who thinks all her husband’s friends are nice people like her husband. So, Vijayan, the father, is anxious and so are several others – from the serial loving neighbour Ammachi to the house maid, not to mention the audience. His friends have their own different perceptions about KK as a person. Divorcee KK is a ladies’ man, according to his friends, including Sruthy’s father Vijayan (Joy Mathew). He offers her a lift as there is no other way for her to get back home, and she readily accepts it.
Coincidentally, she meets her dad’s friend Krishnakumar aka KK (Mammootty), on the road. Sruthy (Karthika Muraleedharan) is a college student and she is stuck in Ooty town because of an unexpected hartal.