Ondimuniyum Nallapadanum

There are subtle mentions of the village’s casteist behaviour, like when the school-going children of the landlord’s house disrespectfully address Nallapaadan the same way they do someone their own age. The landlords trick Nallapaadan into working for free and later serve porridge in a coconut shell they keep outside their house. Albeit in an unsubtle manner, the film gives you historical context for how the underprivileged in the village lost their land and fell to oppression over the course of generations. OMNP is not a vacuous social drama with nothing much to say. Even though we are not being offered any new perspectives, thematic richness is one of the few strengths of the film. The problems with OMNP are more primitive. The filmmaking itself suffers from painful amounts of amateurism.