A protagonist’s evolution can be due to various factors, but going by some of the recent movies with coming-of-age themes, it happens mainly due to a series of relationships.
In Shanil Muhammed’s Aviyal too, that does not change much with the script focusing on four phases from the life of the protagonist Krishnan, each representing a different relationship.
The film is structured as a conversation between musician Krishnan (Joju George) and his daughter (Anaswara Rajan). To console the daughter who is down and out after a break-up, he begins recounting events from his life on the drive back home. Although one cannot be sure whether he intended these as life lessons (for most of it sound like cautionary tales), the daughter, to her credit, does pass some deservedly harsh judgements on her father’s past conduct.
