Maalik

Director: Pulkit

Actors: Rajkummar Rao, Saurabh Shukla

Rating: 1 star

If you aren’t aware of it already, may I please recommend to you this movie called Malik.

Observe, in particular, how it starts off with almost a 10-minute single-take shot, using the camera as a dragon fly through the walls of a local don named Ali, that is Fahadh Faasil.

Of course, that film is in Malayalam — and a masterclass on how Mallu cinema is superior to anything made in Mumbai (or elsewhere in India). Even when they’re attempting the semi-mainstream underworld genre, still suffused with the specific politics of coastal Kerala.