Marakkar's plus points are production design ( Saboo Cyril), cinematography ( Thiru) - costume designing (Sujith) and lastly Mohanlal. Priyadarshan bad scripting of a period war hero subject takes the fizz out of the otherwise technically brilliant film - by far the best that Malayalam film has so far produced.
When you go in for a film with Mohanlal playing the historical character and the title role- you expect it to be in all ways a LAL film. A sort of Genghis Khan of Omar Sharif calibre. What you get is a film that has no characters with emotional connect to audience, a drama like dialogues, badly choreographed war sequences, so many actors whose presence in the film is not needed and a music that is very average ( songs and not BGM). One of the song sounded like a Tamil hit song rehashed.
Pace is too slow and lengthy scenes, some scenes where the emotions are high in content are abruptly cut off, last 30 minutes you get a racy end to the whole film and it looks a bit too hurried and to make up for the 2and 1/2 hrs of boredom that you suffered.
Mohanlal does his best with the scenes that he gets and sheer presence hold the film together. Saddest part is that there is no fan moment or any scene that you can remember from the film. National award jury found VFX fit to get an award and also give Marakkar a best film trophy. Tough the VFX is not bad as SFX, the jury probably did not actually take note of VFX being evident and not merging with the happenings. Considering that the work was done by Anibrain who along with their global partner Framestore had won the Academy Award for the movie Blade Runner 2049. BEST PICTURE ??? . With so many flaws , how does it become India's best film ? Was that year the quality of films that came before the jury even worse ?
I think there is a category that is most popular film and Marakkar deserves it. Even before release the film just through advance booking touched Rs 100 crores and so it fits the bill. Knowing Priyadarshan's mindset, the film has made the producer happy and also bagged national awards ( one for his son). Siddharth Priyadarshan was the VFX supervisor. What more can one ask for ?
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