Writer and screenwriter Susmesh Chandroth criticises Jude Anthony Josephs 2018 film, which became the fastest ₹100 crore-collecting film in Malayalam. 2018 is a politically and creatively miserably failed film. Susmesh Chandroth commented in a Facebook post that the script of the film could have focused on the will and leadership of the state government that managed the flood at that time.