At the time of its release, the film came with a statutory warning-never watch it on a hungry stomach. The title card unfolds through a montage song, delectably showcasing a procession of popular delicacies and street foods in Kerala-right from the famous Pai Dosas, Karimeen Pollichathu snug inside banana leaves, fiery Syrian red fish curries, crisply fried anchovies, bubbling unniyappam, stacks of colourful halwas, paal payasams being carried in large cauldrons inside the Ambalapuzha temple, the plantain leaf sadya, yellow jalebis emerging from hot pans, heaps of jackfruit chips, plates of roasted beef laced with shards of coconut, steaming puttu, pathiri, containers of Thalassery Dum Biryani to shots of iconic restaurants and thattukadas. This Aashiq Abu directorial written by Shyam Pushkaran and Dileesh Nair has Lal and Shwetha Menon playing middle-aged singles discovering each other through food. This film can officially be termed Malayalam cinema's first food film.
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