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Despite some pacing issues, Abrid Shine’s ‘Mahaveeryar’, with Nivin Pauly and Asif Ali, is an utterly original creation that’s bizarre in the best way

Writer: goldenstateservicesj
goldenstateservicesj
Jul 21, 2022
1 min read

Spoilers ahead…


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Abrid Shine is an absolute original. His , about an inter-college arts festival, is one of the best Malayalam films of the recent crop – “new gen” or whatever they are called. was not your usual hero-cop movie. And infused the sports drama with genuine poignancy. But none of these films come close to in terms of out-of-the-box imagination. No, let me rephrase that. The film is so out-of-the-box that… there is no box at all. Like Abrid Shine’s other films, the template is traditional: this is a courtroom drama with cases and witnesses and a judge and so forth. But the writing makes all the difference. The “make of it what you will” story by M Mukundan and the “it may help if you are high” screenplay by Abrid Shine make all the difference..

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