After facing a setback with four consecutive flops, director Renjith is trying to revive his career with Thirakkatha .

The movie is all about Akbar Ahmed, a young movie director, who is in the search for the scripts for his second movie. Akbar is already a talk in the industry about his different way of approach to the profession, and for his living away from tinsel town, simultaneously running a motel ‘Casablanca’ with his crew and friends. Akbar is in no hurry into his second venture, though he has plenty of offers.

The film is about the love and life of movie stars Ajaychandran(Anoop Menon) and Malavika(Priya Mani) who were star couples of the 80’s.

While Ajaychandran is still a super star, no one knows where Malavika is and what has happened to her. The story of Ajaychandran and Malavika starts in the early 80’s , and Ranjith, with his excellent narration technique ,comes out sucessfull in capturing the minds of the audience right from the beginning. Akbar Ahmad’s investigation to complete the script of his next movie unfolds a complex but beautiful love story which is sure to make a long lasting impression on the minds of people watching it.

The film offers some of its best moments in the last half, specially the scene in which Ajaychandran and Malavika meets each other after a long gap in a situation which the audiece are sure to empethize with. But undoubtedly the best scene in the movie is its climax in which Priya Mani shows us why she is a National Award winner. Prithviraj’s performance as the young idealistic film director is brilliant. Samvrutha Sunil who plays the love interest of Akbar Ahmad has nothing much to do.Ranjith himself plays the role of an yesteryear film director(Aby) whose diary entries give inputs to the story of Ajaychandran and Malavika.

The story offers a lot of curiosity about whom on which the movie is based. The makers have placed the late actress Sreevidhya, directors Bharathan and Padmarajan on the posters and presented the movie as a tribute to the late beautiful actress.

young actor Anoop Menon makes the best of his chance and comes up with a controlled and riveting performance as Ajayachandran - the superstar of filmdom. Priyamani makes a cake walk through another role that demands the acting powers of such a talented actor. She carves out each dimension on her character with such a precision that we hardly find anything dramatic in the proceedings. Mallika Sukumaran, and Nandhu comes up with good performances .

Renjith seems to have concentrated more on his scripting abilities than on direction and has not delved more into recreating the atmospherics of the eighties in dress codes or in ambiance. The editor Vijay Shankar doesn’t even attempt to tell the past with varied tones. But the solid scripts, with intelligent management of the plenty of characters, satirical reality bites, and interesting dialogues sprinkled all through make up for those little deficiencies.