Malayalam movie Malik (2021) is the next from State Award winning director Mahesh Narayanan, has Fahadh Faasil in the lead. The movie is essentially a political thriller, based on land acquisitions mainly around coastal areas and the resistance of the people in a particular place to the constant threat of displacement of a minority community and a person who made them rise.
The place where the movie is set plays a crucial part as the changes the place undergoes is clearly shown in Malik from when it was just a small settlement of fishing community of sparsely educated minorities to what it is now. It also goes into how some minority communities are strategically displaced sometimes by politicians and sometimes by corporates for their own benefits, and the issues faced in their rehabilitation in concrete buildings.
Like his previous movie Take off which was based on real incident of rescue of Malayali Nurses from Tikrit in Iraq, Malik Malayalam Movie is based on real incidents but not a historical representation. Malayalam Movie Malik is based on someone very much real life, who passed away in 1986. Malik the Malayalam movie represents how the community would have developed, had their leader been alive after 2018 after the Ockhi cyclone had devastated their coastal regions.
Fahad Fasil plays the role of Sulaiman who emerged as the leader of the community. People like him are responsible for the minority community not being displaced fully from their roots even now. The Movie Malik tries to explain the current mindset of the community.
Malik also has Nimisha Sajayan, Vinay Forrt, Joju George, Indrans, Dileesh Pothan and Jalaja in pivotal roles. Sanu John Varghese takes care of the cinematography, Music is composed by Sushin Shyam and art direction is done by Santhosh Raman. Amazon Prime will be streaming the Fahadh Faasil starrer Malik which is produced by Anto Joseph, from the 3rd of August 2021 Malik Release Date.