Appan

A cracker of a film that is instantly likeable. The opening scenes build up the titular character and that's just one of the superb ways the film handles itself as it weaves a story about a family in their wits' end. With an electric plot that faintly reminds one of Joji (2021), the characters come alive with proper weightage given to all of them so as to let the story narrate itself. You keep wondering why these people continue to put up with misery, but then the film answers that question indirectly. Though the film loses steam as it crescendoes, the characters stay with you longer after you have closed the SonyLiv app. Appan is a surprise hit for me this year.

It's been a while to come across a Malayalam film like Appan to reassure my belief that there is a tremendous potential in character actors and given a chance they will create magic, and Appan has created one of those!

A perfect blend of great performances, amazing locations and visuals, smooth narrative, apt music is what makes Appan a special movie. I would expect state & national recognition for Pauly Valsan who gave a breathtaking performance, she handled her complex character with such ease & grace, it made me relate to her instantly. Hats off to Pauly Valsan, she has solely surpassed every other seasoned actors in this film.

This is Sunny Wayne's career best performance, and more than that I respect him for taking up the challenge to produce & promote such a different narrative. Ananya. Radhika, the kid gave a matured performance supporting the overall flow of events, and finally we have Alencier, the central character, who gave his career best as well with his extravaganza act, making us hate his character from the onset.

The filmmaker had tremendous control over the narrative, and the way he blended visuals, the characters, the music- it was very close to perfection without any distraction. The narrative takes a little dip in the second half with an unnecessary build up for the climax, but that does not take away anything of what this film contributes at large.

I would suggest and recommend every film lover to watch this film primarily for performances. Proud of Malayalam Cinema & the acting talent we have!

Highly Recommended!

I am speechless after watching this movie, I personally wish I never thought about this movie ever again after watching it but I know it's not possible, this movie will stay in everyone's mind for a long time. Brilliant in every single field. Every single person acted exceptionally well, I believe this movie is the career best performance of almost every single actor who acted in this movie. Career changing movie from sunny Wayne. I love how the director and scriptwriter crafted this movie, every single person watching this movie wishes for ittys death. I believe this is best movie in Malayalam in recent times, brilliant.

This is one of the best malayalam movie of the year for me. I loved everything about this movie. Starting with the writing, I don't remember the last time i saw such compelling and deeply written characters. The complexities in the relationship between the characters was so refreshing to see on screen. I loved the way they wrote alanciers and sunny waynes character. The best writing was sunny waynes character. He also performances it amazingly. His relationship with his father, how he takes care of him even though his father made his life hell. He is a good son, he is a good husband, a father himself, this character was explored amazingly. Alancier is the star of the movie. It's only because of alanciers amazing performance this movie works so beautifuly. I think it's alanciers career best performance. I can go on praising the performance of all the actors in the movie. Everyone did a amazing job. I loved the realistic aproach in making, Makes the movie and the characters very relatable. The cinematography is so beautiful, the rubber fields, and the house are the only two main locations, but still the camera angle never feels repeated and keeps us engaged till the end.

A must watch according to me.

This movie speaks for many whose pain are never understood specially in India with pre notion is set for parents. Luckily the main lead has loving and caring mother but for many they are not so fortunate. This movie is so intelligently made and it should be appreciated for the maker to come up with kind of subject. Parents for many can be the reason for their unhappiness and disaster, ruining some one's entire life. A child brought up in unhappy childhood and during growing up years cannot come out of it through out his / her entire life the pain always stays. Don't how many life must have been ruined by their parents themselves. No parent is perfect but deep in side they do have love and kind ness for their children but in situation like shown in the movie such cases do exists where the parents don't play any role except giving birth and feeling such cases are like rarest of rare disease which happens to one in millions. It's is very difficult for outsiders, relatives even the neighbours to understand the turmoil the child goes through because no one can come to term that parents can be so evil that they are no bothered if the kid exists and explaining such situation to others is impossible for the one who is suffering. This movie is one of the most excellent malayalam movie I must have come across though I watched in hindi as I don't understand South language. Few scenes looks comical when in fact it is tragedy happening with the family, which in reality happens too. The outsiders who witness the scenes it looks light and funny but it's life & death situation for the one who suffers.