We have seen various iterations of the private detective in books and cinema. This detective can either be wealthy, neat and sophisticated or broke, dishevelled and despondent. Some of the most appealing and popular ones in fiction belong to the latter category.
There is author Raymond Chandler, who created the gentlemanly but not wealthy detective Philip Marlowe; or Dashiell Hammett, who envisioned different kinds of detectives that exist on all sides of the economic spectrum. Mammootty's character, CI Dominic, is the broke version — a former, disgraced cop who cannot afford a flamboyant lifestyle; he is a gentleman but also has a proclivity for inflating his achievements. He has no qualms about telling his newly joined assistant (Gokul Suresh) to pay the bill because he "forgot" to take the purse.
This kind of detective is closer to real life — you may have noticed detective agencies similar to Dominic's while taking the metro to work. Mammootty makes the best out of what he has been given. Here is an actor who has played different kinds of investigators in cinema throughout his career; ideally, an actor should feel bored and exhausted from playing an investigator more times than we can count.
However, Dominic and the Ladies' Purse offers Mammootty another commendable opportunity for experimentation. His character sketch has enough details to give us a true sense of who Dominic really is. The film's cleverly written early portions provide enough situations to generate h.