when shyam was writing with someone else, the similarity was not so jarring... but take his two independent scripts, and he owes a lot to the sathyan-sreeni brand of cinema... the relation of the protagonist with his family, with his neighbours, his insecurities, his frustrations, his aspirations... the difference is, sathyan would have used oduvil, sankaradi, mamukoya and the other legendaru character artists to portray those secondary characters, dileesh-shyam mode of making is to go genuine and earthly as possible meaning pull people out of the crowd, trade new clothes for their used ones... and film it up... recall a web-reviewer saying, these guys definitely know how to blanket-remix older gems of malayalam cinema... well, not far from the truth...