The pullikkaran (fellow) in Pullikkaran Staraa is a mystical being. He is the definition of an ideal man who blurts out philosophy when there's no need and is popular as a perverted womanizer amongst the people who know him. Played artfully by an unsuspecting Mammootty, the man - a teacher trainer with good looks - continues to do what is known in the real world as servile flattering. He is an average Samaritan without a proper cause, and who is presently being taught the art of courting by a group of sex-craving men. Even if you ignore the misogyny in the plot line like you do it in the real world, Syamdhar's Pullikkaran Staraa continues to disgust you in every other frame, thanks to the subtle yet borderline vulgar references at matrimony, sex, and romantic relationships. There's really no inference or message that one can deduce from this film that primarily has a socially inept 50-something man looking for love. Syamdhar, who impressed us with 7th Day (2014), tries to be socially careful here by adding as many references as he can, but stumbles on the pile. The real problem is not Deepti Sati playing a 20-something, annoying, half-baked character who suddenly starts living with a septuagenarian or Asha Sharath in her stereotype, but what it tells you as a film. Pullikkaran Staraa is a blunder that seems to have been made on a dream the writer had while introspecting about his failure at courting. it shouldn't have existed. TN.
Review of Pullikkaran Staraa
