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At its core, Malik is a political thriller. The story is relevant because in Kerala, there has been an increase of land acquisition cases, especially in sensitive coastal areas,” says Mahesh. “This film revolves around a place where there was a resistance against this constant threat of displacement of a minority community, and a person who was responsible for making his people rise up.”
For Fahadh, it could be a role of a lifetime, literally, with him playing the character of Sulaiman from the age of 20 to 57 and the film showing four phases of his life in detail. “His role is based on a real-life person who passed away in 1986. Through the movie, we represent how the community would have shaped up if he had lived till 2018 after the coastal regions were ravaged by the Ockhi cyclone,” says the State Award-winning filmmaker.
Further on Fahadh’s character, Mahesh says that he is “someone who emerged as a leader among the community”. “People like him are those responsible for stopping a lot of the people from being displaced, else a lot of coastal regions would be nonexistent in Kerala’s map,” he explains, adding the movie will explain why the community puts up a fight even now.
While the movie spans from the 1960s to the present, Mahesh reveals that the story unfolds in a time-frame of just 14 days. “I am a huge fan of how IV Sasi and T Damodaran have approached their films such as Ee Nadu and I have used a new format of their template to tell the story in Malik,” says the filmmaker, who has also written its script
