A totally fun-filled trip, the movie explore a genre that was quite popular sometime back but have hardly made it to movies coming up these days. A bucket full of youthfulness and color appeared in the casting, making, posters, songs, teaser, trailer and whatever that came out from Aanandam camp that looked breezy and at the same time was too catchy. The same youthfulness, feel and passion is also reflected in the movie as well. The film marks the debut of Ganesh Raj, a former assistant to Vineeth Sreenivasan and Anjali Menon and coincidentally it is Vineeth himself producing the film that has Lal Jose films looking after the distribution and marketing part.Aanandam is an excursion or a picnic film where a group of engineering students as part of Industrial Visit travel to Humpy, Goa, and a few other tourist destinations. A seven member gang is the focus of the film and the story just explore their relationships and little things that unfold during this journey making it something that the group can cherish for a lifetime. The story is set in the backdrop of the first IV (Industrial Visit) of a batch of IT students. There is this one side lover boy who desperately wants to express his love. There is this “responsible” fellow who takes care of the whole program. The jovial guy, cool couple, a silent girl and all the sort of characters one could imagine in a campus life (engineering). How this IV manages to create changes in a better way in their life is what Aanandam telling us. By choosing the most happening part of college life, Ganesh has successfully tackled the main issue of establishing characters. It is not Happy Days were we are seeing the whole four years in a span of two and a half hours or so. By the time the film starts we are in that world and the characters are introduced effectively. The writing also gives space to each character. Even the largely silent Darshana has a role in making the overall film a heartening one. The subplots lingering on each character doesn’t have any lose ends and they all have a purpose. The linking of all these conflicts actually gives more of a structure to the film.