Oru Kidayin Karunai Manu (OKKM) is a very simple story that revolves around a death and a group of villagers who are unfortunately involved in it. The entire story is in fact narrated during the title card even before the first scene is played; a gutsy and confident move, believing in the screenplay. The very first scene strikes you as the camera angles are shown from the eyes of a goat.

How would a goat react to people’s problems? Will it take sides? Will it be judgemental? No! Similarly, the director has not taken any sides, has not tried to talk about a social issue or attempted to convey a message through the film. How would a set of people react to a given situation? How few members try to make use of the complicated scenario? These things form the basis of OKKM.

Director Suresh Sangiah has captured a story not trying to be smart by feeding his thoughts or adding many unnecessary cinematic elements to it. Having said that, it is not a docudrama, it has comedy, it has songs but they travel like water in the river. There is so much of satire that is drawn from our day-to-day life. Not many filmmakers try searching for such humor. Suresh Sangiah has tried his best to bring out humor from people’s life which has worked to a good extent.

The film does not follow a standard narrative pattern and that is where Suresh’s screenplay scores. However, you could experience a slight lag in pace towards the pre-climax portion which could have been tweaked a little. Emotions captured in the film largely look real which is one of the biggest strengths to OKKM. The dialogues sound so rooted and pitch perfect for the story. Nice to see good work behind the dialogues department. However, one character sort of annoys people with repetition of same verse over and again.