With such a solid cast and crew, it isn't wrong to expect some quality writing, production design, and performances here. The film's key selling point (two people getting stuck in a zoo enclosure with a lion) merely comes across as an unnecessary plot diversion, which neither resolves any core character conflicts nor explains the poorly scripted (and crafted) tail-end. This is not even close to the vintage Suraj Venjaramood you'd love to see in a premise like this. There are a couple of oddly fun one-liners, but 99.8% of attempts at humor fail to evoke even a chuckle. VFX, animatronics, and even capturing a real lion's antics on camera couldn't make the entire "dealing with a lion & a drunkard" scenes any better-those are just difficult to sit through.
I remember laughing more for an atrocious film like Crocodile Love Story than this one - at least, it had fun interventions from Kalabhavan Mani, Prem Kumar, and company. Here, despite the presence of performers like Manju Pillai, Rajesh Madhavan, Ramesh Pisharody, Alancier Ley Lopez, and Malayalam cinema's new-gen master of satire Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval, it simply feels like a potpourri of characters. This also contributes to diluting the stakes of the central plot, which lacks any sort of emotional hook. I have always loved seeing Anagha, and she does fine even with the limited character development.
