Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea

Marakkar is a decent attempt and a one time watch (sans the hype). The cinematography, costumes, sets etc. Are quite well done. However, the core of the movie is amiss. The story and characters are all over the place and none of the arcs are well developed. It's just poor direction from Priyadarshan, throwing so many characters into the mix for no good reason whatsoever. All the plot lines are so short and meaningless, that nothing sticks. I watched it on the first day and took my family along as well, and it was truly an excruciating watch for my parents since it's 3 hours of boredom with no story. Mohanlal still has so much to offer and I really hope good directors take advantage of his acting prowess and producers spend big money on promising projects, unlike this one.

The grand scale of production values such as Art, VFX, series of mega actors, costumes,Songs, Cinematography all would make one think here is Malayalam movie's KGF and Bahubali. First half is crisp and engaging. Pranav Mohanlal portion was very well done. Apart from some miscasting and every one using their own slangs , first half was very impressive.

Second half started of with long cliche melodrama that will put shame to the word cliche. From that point script and director did not know what to do and how to take it to a climax.

Any how, watch it for the first half, for the grandness never seen in malayalam movies before.

Marakkar Lion Of The Arabian Sea (2021) : Brief Review -

The IQ Level of National Award Juries must be lower than the Temperature during Winter Season In India. I actually don't care about award shows, not just Indian but also International ones. I even have problems with Oscars (please note I have seen all 93 Oscar winners films to say that). When Marakkar won National Award, it didn't excite me at all. Only two reasons for me to watch this film were Mohanlal and Malayalam cinema's attempt to make a visual granduer. There are hardly few legendary films made in this genre, the best remains Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (1989), and now after watching Marakkar I can easily say that Malayalam cinema will never be able to make a magnum opus like that. Marakkar is grand, it has big structure but lacks soul. Priyadarshan terribly mediocre vision has caused heavy collapse. I found it interesting for like two hours, everything was looking decent, but then the last hour spoiled the party. The climax was damn outdated. Even 80s ans 90s' Malayalam films had better cliches than this. Offtrack Mohanlal struggles but somehow survives. For me, this man is the biggest legend from Mollywood. He has given so many cult films and outstanding performances during his prime phase- Late 80s, 90s and 00s. To watch him doing hardcore action in classic films like 'Keeradam' 'Yodha' 'Spadikam', 'Kala Paani', 'Aaraam Thapuran' was an experience, but watching him doing action at this age with such physics didn't look suitable. Priyadarshan just did not care about the outcome, he just made for his own sake. However, Marakkar is not a headache, it's a decent film but the kind of undeserving hype they created deserved some heavy slaughtering and that's what I've tried to do. Overall, strictly average. Grand but not Good. Somewhat interesting but not fascinating.

RATING - 5/10*

By - #samthebestest.

As usual director tries to copy other language movie scenes 1)Pirates n bahubali stunt 2) Troy's emotional scene 3) suryas rajubhai suspense Casting- Ammas main members where added and their casting was not apt, which bring comedy in serious situation especially mukesh.

If the movie was directed by rajamouli atleast the copied( which I mentioned above) area could have been better.

When the war starts camera starts shaking...

Overall for malayalam movie it was a great effort which is not good movie comparing to other language movies.

One time watchable 6.5/10.

Dialogue deliverance not up to the average

Not even a single dialogue to be remembered back

Vfx seems to extremely improved in accordance with Malayalam film industry

Average film 🎞 rather than a big budget promotion film.