kiaan plays aniyankunju a much loved young man who lost his parents and is living with his uncle and aunt his uncle played by renji panicker is an ayurvedic physician who wants aniyankunju to take after him aniyankunju however has political ambitions in pala but caught in a legal tangle he has to leave for the us where his sisters live hes there having an easy time with them till one brotherinlaw says they need to sit down for a serious chat which is when the movie breaks at halftime the filmmaking of aniyankunjum thannalayathum which is 112 minutes long has an oldfashioned feel that makes us feel we are watching an 80s movie or tv serial will the pace speed up and get exciting in the second half