Why Thanmathra Failed?

Thanmatra (means molecule) was the second film of Blessy, one of the talented young directors in Malayalam movie industry.
It was an eagerly awaited one too.
The phenomenal success of Kazhcha, the film with a difference made all expect something even better from this newcomer.
Mohanlal has done his best and heroine Meera Vasudev and the boy Arjun Lal have acted nicely.Then what went wrong?
The answer is Blessy.
His screenplay is not at all good and the direction is pathetic.
When the character Ramesan slips in to the realm of Alzheimer's disease , the film reach a dead end. It is very difficult for an average director to sustain the tempo of a hero-oriented-film after the hero become inactive or absent, that too for a long time.
It is true that Padmarajan had done it brilliantly in Moonnampakkam and Adoor Gopalakrishnan in Mukamukham. Like in Mukhamukam, Blessy's hero too become absent- mentally. But no major happenings occur after that stage, except the hero's death. The incidents portrayed in between miserably fail to catch the attention of the viewers.
Nothing is there that make the audience wait eagerly for the coming scenes. And there is no shortage for cliches too- The death scene of Ramesan and the torture by his cousin...A serious flaw that was not noted in kazhcha become all too evident here- Here too the style of narration is naive and plain. (It is heard, that was why kazhcha got no awards. To tell the story, Blessy adopts no different patterns. Craft has much importance as far as todays academic film scenario is concerned).
In short, Blessy's attempt to portray a decease that rarely featured in Indian Cinema ends up as a miserable failure.(The theme was not that fresh too, to set the records straight. In Kattathe Kilikkoodu, Bharathan has done it before and had succeeded).