Mālik

Mālik

Ahammad Ali Sulaiman is the godfather of Ramadapally, a coastal town in Thiruvananthapuram where Muslims and Christians live together. He prepares to undertake the Hajj pilgrimage in his middle years on the insistence of his Christian wife Roselyn. Sulaiman and his friend Aboobacker, a political leader, are on the verge of fallout over land acquisition from the locals for a harbour project. At the airport, the police arrest Sulaiman under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA). The police assign Shibu, a goon to kill Sulaiman in custody extrajudicially but he dies in an explosion. They then intimidate Freddy, a juvenile arrested for throwing steel bombs at the police, into doing it. Freddy is the son of David Christudas, Roselyn's elder brother and Sulaiman's nephew. David was a friend of Sulaiman's but now holds a grudge against him. On the police's insistence, Sulaiman's mother Jameela meets Freddy. In the 1960s, the Muslims and Christians of Ramadapally lived in harmony. The Christian fishermen community primarily lived in its Edavathura suburb. Sulaiman, David, Peter and Hameed dropped out of school and engaged in petty crimes, working for Chandran, a local goon. Chandran disowned them after Sulaiman sends trash dumped at the local mosque back to the disposers. Sulaiman and his friends started smuggling on their own and he sets up his own shop. Sulaiman's earnestness impressed the sub-collector Anwar Ali.

Director

Mahesh Narayan

Release

15 Jul 2021

Run time

162 min

Language

Malayalam