For a Mollywood cinephile, there are quite a number of reasons to watch ‘Pazhassi Raja’. Not only that it is made in the biggest budget ever in Mollywood, it is also an offering from the masters of the media, including Mammootty, M T Vasudevan Nair and Hariharan. Moreover, there are a plenty of other great names including Resul Pookutty, Illayaraja, Sarath Kumar and a plenty of others whose credits itself demand interest. Above all, it is the first visual rendering of the most fascinating epoch making fight of the great leader, against tyranny and oppression of the British.
Expectations are obviously sky high. And the question is whether it has liven up to that? And the big answer is 'Yes'. The movie is indeed a masterpiece made in a stellar scale, which grab your attention from the word go, taking the acceptable cinematic liberties to keep your attention all through, though in a story that everyone in the state knows very well. Set in the final years of seventeenth century, the bri