Malaikottai Vaaliban

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Arjun For an art form to evovle, you need to break the existing boundaries and push forward experimenting with your creativity. Like all LJP films, this is exactly that and more. Wonderfully told, beautifully captured movie. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/24 Full Review Sal Waste of Time. Botch up move with music and content taken from western movies and what not. The Good, Bad and Ugly and this is the Ugly one. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/29/24 Full Review Athul M An epic that should've been on the scale of the Mahabharatham that unfortunately plays out more like a disjoint collection of ideas that never really work together. One of those movies you just hope get re-made in the future because there's so much potential. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/26/25 Full Review Nathen J Too unique and smooth Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/16/24 Full Review Akhil Raj Very good movie best work acton thriller mass scene super Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/31/24 Full Review Emil T GRANDIOSE, EPIC, AND MYTHICALLY MAGNIFICENT If you ask me which is the greatest film that Malayalam cinema has given in 2024 so far, I would say it is Malaikottai Vaaliban. Lijo, the most eccentric filmmaker of Mollywood has brought an epic never seen before, something fresh, stylistic and grandiose. The visuals, score and story, all together are a well-crafted blend of a multitude of cultural elements, specifically from world cinema, brought into a plot that sounds subtly the ethos and elements of Indian mythology. It contains a plot-line resembling Indian mythology and brings into it a Spaghetti Western-influenced score and setting, A Samurai-like character resembling Kurosawa's samurai films, and even elements of popular Indian cinema, like Sholay. Overall, it is a well-crafted blend. Mohanlal, one of the greatest of Malayalam and Indian cinema, truly asserted the mythical image and stuns with a magnificent performance. The only error that came into the writing is Vaaliban's lack of enough brawls. His magnificence and aura are built largely through praises from his companions, if a few more brawls were given, it would have been a perfect construction of his larger-than-life image, such an image, the film did create, but the lack mentioned here created a void, it was more rhetoric and less action. Overall, the film is a wild wild experiment. Something totally fresh, and never seen before. And that is probably why the film failed commercially. The experiment was too big for the audience to comprehend. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/18/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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