the first half of the film basheerinte premalekhanam that has a duration of 2 hours 9 minutes in total has all things vintage sans the old world charmthe movie is set in the eighties in a small village in kozhikode kerala which witnesses the arrival of its first tv this might flood the malayalam audience with a sense of dj vutv and its magic also become elementary in sowing the seeds of love between suhra sana althaf and basheer farhaan faasil while sheela and madhu also a play a couple in the moviehowever the over dosage of the theatrical performance and eighties style dialogues make the film a bit too silly at timessheelas performance and character is highly reminiscent of her role in manasinakkareso far the movie is no different from any commonplace love stories of the eighties will it have anything different to offer post the intermission