Deepthi's Scribbles

Spoiler Alert : Details of the climax are revealed below, so if you don’t want spoilers, please don’t read. I avoid writing bad reviews for films, because whether or not I liked the movie, it involves the hard work of a lot of people.  So when I do end up writing a bad review, then something about the film, usually its plot, has enraged me to the extent that I need to respond. Mahaveeryar is one such film. With two of Malayalam’s favorite actors, Nivin Pauly and Asif Ali in the lead, both of whom have given us some wonderful movies to cherish, I had high hopes for this film. The work of director Abrid Shine in the past has also been promising.  This movie is an attempt at an experimental storytelling method that uses satire to poke fun at societal structure. The trailer promised a courtroom drama intertwined with intriguing elements of a mythological story involving time travel. And the first half of the movie did live up to the hype. It was funny, entertaining and also managed to gene