Start the week with a film: A sea of love and heartbreak in ‘Moothon’

Is Geethu Mohandas parodying ultra-macho films, especially those starring Yash, with her upcoming movie Toxic, which is led by Yash? What else to make of the teaser, in which Yash’s character Raya, after a hot-and-heavy rendezvous with a woman, generates enough energy to trigger a blast that destroys his enemies?

Mohandas’s ambitious third feature, co-written by Yash, is a multi-language production that is aiming for a March 19 release. The film’s subtitle A Fairy Tale For Grown-Ups equally applies to Mohandas’s second movie, Moothon (2019).

Moothon is set in two places by the Arabian Sea – gorgeous Lakshadweep and grotty Mumbai. In the film, these geographically diverse islands are connected by trade routes, fishing and the timeless lore of the sea. The dialogue is in the Jeseri dialect of Malayalam spoken in Lakshadweep and Hindi.

Mulla (Sanjana Dipu) is bullied at school and treated with disdain by the fisherman Moosa (Dileesh Pothan). Mulla wants to locate the one known as “moothon”, the elder sibling Akbar, who left Lakshadweep for Mumbai after his affair with his neighbour’s brother Ameer (Roshan Mathew) was discovered. Mulla sets out to Mumbai to find Akbar, a journey as perilous as it is magical, but in a dark and twisted way.

Everyone changes on the mainland, Moosa warns Mulla. Mohandas’s...

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