In Padma Kumar's Parunthu, the regal bird is uncharacteristically passive. There is simply no ferocity in its eyes nor does it whoosh about with a lethal clinch. All it does is soar senselessly all around with neither a prey nor a perch in sight.

By VN  


An interesting and promising story-line gone off the track for lack of a well-written script - that's what the Mammootty-starrer Parunthu is.
By Thomas T