 "Odayil Ninnu" came as a shocking revelation that a finest piece of literature can be produced with commonplace themes and unconventional style of prose with ordinary mortals as heroes and heroines.Apart from the fact that the appearance of rickshaw puller was a thrilling experience at that time, the he was known to have started a new trait in Malayalam literature and many writers followed suit.The novel was made into a movie with the name unchanged, by K. S. Sethumadhavan in 1965.