Dileep and Kavya Madhavan present subtle performances and can be considered the only saving factors of the film. Nedumudi Venu, Vijayaraghavan and Indrans also do their parts well. However, with regard to the two teenage actors in the movie, the less said, the better. There is nothing incomprehensible to a lay viewer in Pinneyum, but the intensity and sub-texts one looks forward to is also missing.

On retrospect, ‘Pinneyum’ strikes us as little more than a sentimental pile of overworked emotions. Clearly not a film that one would expect of Adoor, it’s an ineffective reformulation of a familiar theme that gets lost between cinematic genres.