Pathinettam Padi can be a deceptive title thinking about ongoing occasions in the state, yet it is very well-suited here, in that the film rotates around the lives of youths who are on the venturing stone to 18 years old.

At the center of the film is the long-standing competition between understudy packs having a place with two schools in Thiruvananthapuram city: a worldwide school where those having a place with a first class foundation study, and a Government school where the not really monetarily wealthy enlist. It is the sort of contention which appears to be very unbelievable for school understudies, even in a masala performer, chiefly because of the degree of savagery included — from transport burnings to brutal fights inside a moving transport… indeed, even a composed battle to the demise in an open ground!

The characters of the young ladies are consigned to the foundation, with scarcely any of them getting a line or two to absolute. Some sentiment blossoms from the get-go in the principal half, yet it is before long left hanging, never to be discussed later. In any case, one additionally feels grateful for saving us the run of the mill ‘grounds sentiment’ track.Such a large number of characters show up, however just several them are composed with any profundity to them, similar to the youthful Ayyappan or the character of the reasonable yet unconventional educator who aides the troublemakers. The entire pack of newcomers do show guarantee, illuminating the screen with their irresistible vitality, even as the content, composed by executive Shanker Ramakrishnan himself, hangs. The much-discussed appearances by Mammootty and Prithviraj doe not add a lot to the film. For probably the first time, the ‘mass’ scenes are left for the more youthful ones, while the senior ones go about as aides.

Bound with certain messages to the young, the film appears to represent a substitute model of instruction, away from decay adapting, yet very little is appeared on how they go about it. In spite of the fact that it would be a serious stretch to search for such subtleties in a mass performer, that is maybe one of only a handful couple of takeaways from this motion picture, which is unnecessarily longer by atleast thirty minutes.