

Though it appear that the world around Chackochan is certainly too small with the characters of his early life bumping into him in a regular manner, the debutante director Jis Joy has been able to pack the screenplay and its bigger characters in a decent way, without letting out too much of its suspense. The final twenty minutes is a twist galore, which may interest the die hard fns of the genre, while others sits in total bewilderment. The unwanted details but kills the interest at some portions of the movie, whose bits and pieces are finely grouped up in the end. The movie has an interesting screenplay, but it takes almost an hour to introduce the characters, who has definite roles to play as it progreses.

He starts to make important resolutions in his life and takes up the job of a car driver, making the narrative to move on another direction. Without realising his shady acts, one bank employee Meera ( Aparna Gopinath) falls for Chackochan, which changes his life from isolation. While attempting a biggest heist of prowling a businessman (saikumar) which fails, the team splits up and Chacko repositions into another city., where he continues his acts in a bigger scale with success. He is forced to flee on a stolen bicycle and bumps into a bicycle thief (Salim Kumar) and his two young lads. The movie has Asif Ali as Chackochan who lost his parents early, and into a miserable childhood.

Planned as a thriller, with a twist comingup in every ten minutes, the movie offers an onetime watch for all those who love thrillers that is told as a jigsaw-puzzle.

And so,in its extreme nonlinear format of story telling is debutant director Jis Joy's Bicycle Thieves. The new generation filmmakers has done away with the art of presenting any story in linear narratives.
