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00:00-00:35 Intro
00:35-03:02 Making Style: Why the movie is slow?
03:02-04:47 A Letter from Lijo
04:47-06:09 The Art of Writing
06:09-08:29 Dual Climax
08:29-09:20 Mammootty Acting

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (transl. A Mid-day Slumber), officially titled in English as Like An Afternoon Dream,[2] is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-Tamil bilingual drama film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery and written by S. Hareesh from a story by Pellissery.[3] It was produced by Mammootty Kampany, with Amen Movie Monastery as co-producer. The film stars Mammootty Ramya Suvi, Ramya Pandian and Ashokan and threads on insomnia, spiritualism, and fantasy.

The film portrays some incidents in James's life. After visiting Velankanni, Tamil Nadu, a group of Malayali tourists take a bus back to Kerala. James stops the bus at a village in rural Tamil Nadu while the tourists snooze. James enters into a house nearby, and starts acting like a member of the family living in the house. He behaves like a Tamilian and speaks in Tamil like a local of the area. It confuses everyone who travelled with him as well as the local people of the village. Eventually the people realise he has taken on the character, mannerisms and language of Sundaram, a member of the family who had disappeared two years earlier. James has knowledge of the village and villagers that only Sundaram would have known. James/Sundaram grows confused at the apparent sudden changes in the village, such as a temple being built that had not started construction when Sundaram went missing. James' family and friends plot how to drug him in order to return him to Kerala and get him treatment for his presumed mental disorder. However after falling asleep, James regains his true identity and willingly goes with them to return home. In the end, it is shown that Sundaram's character was merely a dream. Or was that a dream?

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam was released theatrically on 19 January 2023 and received critical acclaim. At the 53rd Kerala State Film Awards, it won two awards, including Best Film (Pellissery and George Sebastian) and Best Actor (Mammootty). On 7 November 2021, Lijo Jose Pellissery officially announced the film by sharing the title through social media. Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is the first-time collaboration between Mammootty and Lijo Jose Pellissery. The film was produced by Mammootty's newly launched production house Mammootty Kampany.[4][7]

On 7 November 2021, principal photography took place in Manjanaickenpatti Village, Near Palani, Tamil Nadu.[4] Filming was wrapped up on 7 December 2021 Baradwaj Rangan, reviewing for Galatta Plus, described the film as "magical" and "an instant classic" and continued that "to experience a film like this – at once muddled and filled with clarity – is to feel transcendentally alive."[13] Simon Abrams from RogerEbert.com gave the film 3.5 out of 4 and wrote that "Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam feels like a deep and abidingly strange trip to Pellissery’s memory palace" and that "Pellissery confirms his prominence among a new wave of Malayalam-speaking Indian filmmakers."[14]

Anna M. M. Vetticad of Firstpost gave the film 3 out of 5 and wrote "Apart from the music and sound design, the highlight of Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is its immersive central performance...the thespian does not give either James or Sundaram any quirks, yet masterfully conveys their divergent personalities leaving us in no doubt as to who is who and when. This team-up with Lijo confirms that Mammootty is steering his career into a whole new experimental phase, embracing not just the sort of middle-of-the-road, slice-of-life ventures that have endeared Malayalam cinema to a pan-India audience, but also entering an unapologetically philosophical arena."[15]

Prem Udayabhanu of Onmanorama reviewed the film as post-siesta drama a lofty cinematic experience and wrote "The orchestrated chaos we see in Jallikattu or Churuli is amiss. But through the interplay of hallucination and trance Lijo’s scriptwriter S Harish infuses into Mammotty’s character, the master craftsman pulls the actor and the audience to a lofty plain of cinematic excellence. We cannot but embrace this irrational reel exuberance."[16]