Very poor portrayal
Stupid attempts:
1. Saikumar mimicking and imitating the Late actor Sukumaran's voice and mannerisms was so unnecessary...Why can't he just be himself? People can't die or retire in CBI series is it?
2. CBI collecting evidence from a crime scene without a glouse or any other precautions to avoid tampering evidence
3. Having 5 or 6 juniors but not having any role or dialogue apart from filling screen space ..
4. A brilliant talented confident actress like Asha Sharath being portrayed as an adultress that too with a man who looks much younger to her and Asha doesn't have any real business in the movie
5. Says Anoop Menon is Schizophrenic at the end but Sethu finds it ok to slap him without considering the fact that he is mentally sick and a patient... when he misbehaves...which is expected in such illness...It portrayed wrongly how mentally sick people should be handled...That was so careless and brass of a seasoned veteran actor like Mammootty at the age of 70 in real to not notice or be aware of how he portrays such people's treatment.
6. Oh and while we are here, a person who has acute Schizophrenia can easily rise to be the top gun in the Kerala police department...What a sham! So we have absolutely no sense is it as a state? To do medical verification, background check, history etc...to be recruited to the police dept.?
7. Poor English dialogues...if the pronunciation and grammar is not monitored, don't use English in a malayalam movie...Words such as alibi, or Asha Sharath being a ' lawyer' saying 'l was in illegal relationship... 'Seriously???Leave the grammar, IPC has ruled committing adultery is not illegal in India...It is ' illicit '.... Again no effort or research to clarify...
8. Idavela babu is just another person filling screen space with a very irritating portrayal...
9.. and ofcourse everyone else is brainless, Sethuram Iyer alone solves the case...After 30 plus years, mukesh is still a subordinate...
Pro.:
They included Actor Jagathy and that was kind of well planned but to show his real son was so not required
Overall a far cry from the CBI original and mediocre direction...
Towards the end was really blah!