Fahadh Faasil as Ranga with his catchphrase ‘Eda Mone’ has charged up almost everybody who watched Aavesham. Being the producer and lead actor of the film, Fahadh seems detached from Ranga pretty soon when he says cinema is not such a big thing to talk about. Watch and leave it. The audience can discuss while driving back home but not at the dinner table. His next statement about his off-screen persona which shouldn’t be a concern to anybody could be hurting his wider fan base in India. He is more comfortable as a producer than an actor. He considers himself an actor with big limitations. At this point, the interviewer intercepts ‘Don’t be over-modest’.

Fahadh, the most talented actor of the recent new-wave Malayalam films isn’t a big people-pleaser. Fahadh and his crazy characters walk a path far ahead of his peers. Like Ranga, a trope goon dressed up in local flavor twists the knife in the least expected moment. Now, he arrests his boys in a den and starts playing dumb charades. Watching the lighter shade of Amban’s all-rolled-into-one PA profile, you can’t giggle anymore. Ranga in ‘high mode’ is a terrific shift. A happy Ranga’s solo performance after a shower reassures FaFaa needs no six-pack body to enthrall his audience. A gamut of emotions flashes through Ranga’s eyes convoyed by fluid body gestures. Such instants would transfer Fahadh Faasil magic on-screen. You can’t discrete Ranga and Fahadh now and that’s not a rare moment in Fa Faa films. In Aavesham, Director Jithu Madhavan and Ranga take the audience along. An inseparable existence with a charged-up Ranga and his irrational men and three vengeful teenagers-relatable adolescent adrenaline rush.

I wouldn’t say the audience cannot presume Fahadh's gestures. There’s a familiarity with his applied psyche to characters. The thing is every next time, his acting prowess surpasses it. Fahadh locks his characters right there where they need to be regardless of their shades. Acting may not be effortless for him but a conscious effort. In the current Malayalam cinema, Fahadh has no alternative. He might challenge himself.