Malikappuram

Very rarely do you watch a movie that takes you on a beautiful journey, and watching Maalikappuram was one of those rare journeys that everyone would want to take at least once in their lifetime.

The movie had all the commercial elements of a family entertainer and rivetting performances from the lead and supporting actors, that will take you through a myriad of emotions that will linger with you even after the movie.

If you are thinking that you are heading to watch a devotional movie, then let me break it to you, it is not a devotional movie, it's a mass entertainer, crime thriller, and at the same time a feel-good movie, placed in a devotional ambience.

So watch it! Feel it! And get entertained, make sure you have your seat belts on!

I'm not gonna talk abt the techniques, story telling, + or -. Felt like sharing what I felt watching this master piece

Maligapuram ( journey to Sabarimala). Maligapuram - sabarimalavin kaapaval aanal antha maligapurathukey oru sothanai endral Puli mithu varuvan en Ayyappan 🙏🏼🙏🏼

The movie starts with a frame of ayyapan ( for our super hero ). Any ayyappan devotees will have goosebumps seeing his hero on a bigger screen.

The first scene starts with Jyoti. What a moment - true bliss to watch and I'm sure everyone feels the divine behind it.

Jyoti aaga arambitha padam harivarasanam paattil mudithanar ( starts with Jyoti and ends with harivarasanam - song used to make ayyappan sleep / bring peace to ur heart ).

Deva Nandha ( girl lead and our own maligapuram of this movie ) - as the name means God's joy ( joy comes out of knowing god ). You can literally visualize how much this girl loves ayyappan , and wanted to see him desperately. Her actual joy is not about having then mittai but sharing with Ayyappan is actual joy.

The first half completely goes with dad and daughter bonding. Dad promised to take her to see ayyapan and how he couldn't make it up.

U will end up in tears wen she was forced to remove the maalai due to her personal situation. You would feel bad why god is cruel, why can't he give dharshan to the Lil one but our super hero is known to play all thiruvilaiyadal ( appan buthi iruka thana seiyum ).

As a director, u can teach an artist to emote any sort of scene but for a Lil girl - it's not easy to show that kaathal, ekkam, emartram, mana thirupthi, puripu, kovam abt ayyappan.. her eyes speak in lot of frames abt her wish to see ayyapan atleast for one time.

Ayyappan kitta enna ketka pora. Kid answer : en Patti sonnanga ayyappan kitta thaan en appa poittar nu , so ayyapan kitta en appa ah nalla padiya parthuko nu solluva nu. That maligapuram nailed it.

Ella thadaikalaiyum thaandi 18 padi erum kaatchi. Sathyam ah orutharala nadika mudiyathu antha scene unless neenga aathmarthama ayyana nenacha mattum thaan mudiyum. Kannula sottu thanni vazhiya, padikattula irukara thaniya thottu kannula vekara maligapuram - pure goosebumps moments. Malai podra kaatchi, malaiya remove panra kaatchi, pamba bus la eri pogum kaatchi, irumudi kattum kaatchi, ayyanuku then mittai kudukum kaatchi and all the frames Deva Nandha has lived as a pure Ayyappan devotee..

Best experience: night show 1am - movie ends : title card starts and our own harivarasanam ( yesudas Iyya voice ). Best feel that u can have ever. A lots of things I haven't mentioned but this definitely worth watch for all Ayyappan devotees.

Swami saranam🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thankfully after many decades, there is a movie to showcase the true culture of kerala since time immemorial. This movie has everything a family needs to watch. If you are an ayyappa devotee. This movie is a treat to watch. Even otherwise it is a must watch movie for any normal sensible person. This temple is one of Kerala's lifeline and no movie showcasing good about it since many decades. Thanks to the director, producer and Unni Mukundan ! India is now truly connecting to its roots and originality. So glad to see ground reality stories that we could relate to our childhoods. Movies like this should come often.

Amazing movie. In recent times malayalam movies had anti Hindu anti India element due to communist islamic influences.. Especially through beef reference in many past movies.. This stands different as the perfect malayalam movie with Indian sanathani culture representing the real malayalees.. This is pround indian cinema..Apart from Unni mukundan stellar performance,The child actress was amazing, especially her innocence and her real life bhakthi towards ayyappa was the highlight of the film.. Especially her performance in the movie made the movie real.. Most of the people were having tears in their eyes and also happines and smile once the show was over.

Such a good movie and Excellent casting. The whole movie is about malikappuram Kallu the little girl with an aim /determination to see lord ayyappa. The kind of acting is just amazing kid. Hatsoff to swami piyush unni done his part very well . Unnimukundan as an actor has really scaled up and has delivered spledid performance through out the movie. Must say I have witnessed Unnimukundans career best performance in this movie. The movie is actly a journey to lord ayyappa with a great balance of humour ,emotions, fight sequences ,adventure etc. Well Hatsoff to the entire crew behind this wonderful flick I really have seen lord Ayyappa through your great work.