"Your hero doesn’t eat," the old man said. "He doesn’t pray. He doesn’t even get stuck in a traffic jam because a pooram (temple procession) is passing. How can he be from Kerala?"
The film was a small hit — not because of the drone shots, but because a critic wrote: "This film breathes like a Kerala afternoon." mallu max reshma video blogpost mega
"See?" Govindan said. "Malayalam cinema isn't just from Kerala. It's a mirror that walks through our cholas (paddy fields). It has the sarcasm of the communist and the mysticism of the snake grove . It captures our anxiety about the Gulf, our love for newspapers, our habit of over-explaining, and the way we say 'ah, entammo' (oh my god) for everything." "Your hero doesn’t eat," the old man said