If any film can convey the feeling of smooth sailing on a calm sea, with the relatively strong wind just giving the ship a mild shake occasionally, Sathyan Anthikad's Makal can be one of the choices. For, there is hardly any serious conflict within the plot. Yet to resolve this lighter conflict between a father and his teenage daughter, a new character — no less than a goon from another state — is conjured up out of thin air to impart a lesson on parental love.
Screenwriter Iqbal Kuttipuram, who is teaming up with Anthikad after Oru Indian Pranayakadha and Jomonte Suvisheshangal, need not have relied on such a character introduction, which sticks out from the otherwise smoothly-flowing plot. He just had to look within his own promising storyline, of a father struggling to match the wavelength of his young daughter, for material to bring the narrative to a satisfying end.
