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2025·Action·2h 59m
6.9
Five years after becoming Chief Minister of Kerala, Jathin Ramdas' move to align with communal forces led by Balraj 'Baba' Bajrangi, triggers Stephen Nedumpally aka Khureshi Ab'raam to return with his Man Friday Zayed Masood to save his home state and settle scores.
Directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran
controversy
cynical
kerala
admiring
enthusiastic
optimistic
2002 gujarat riots

Cast

Mohanlal
Mohanlal
Stephen Nedumpally / Khureshi-Ab'raam
Prithviraj Sukumaran
Prithviraj Sukumaran
Zayed Masood
Manju Warrier
Manju Warrier
Priyadarshini Ramdas
Tovino Thomas
Tovino Thomas
Jathin Ramdas
Abhimanyu Singh
Abhimanyu Singh
Balraj / Baba Bajrangi
Sukant Goel
Sukant Goel
Munna
Indrajith Sukumaran
Indrajith Sukumaran
Govardhan
Jerome Flynn
Jerome Flynn
Boris Oliver
Andrea Tivadar
Andrea Tivadar
Michele Menuhin
Kishore
Kishore
Karthik
Ériq Ebouaney
Ériq Ebouaney
Kabuga
Saikumar
Saikumar
Mahesha Varma

Crew

Prithviraj Sukumaran
Prithviraj Sukumaran
Director
Murali Gopy
Murali Gopy
Writer
Deepak Dev
Deepak Dev
Original Music Composer
Sujith Vaassudev
Sujith Vaassudev
Director of Photography
Antony Perumbavoor
Antony Perumbavoor
Producer
Allirajah Subaskaran
Allirajah Subaskaran
Producer
Gokulam Gopalan
Gokulam Gopalan
Producer
Stunt Silva
Stunt Silva
Stunt Coordinator
G. K. M. Tamil Kumaran
G. K. M. Tamil Kumaran
Head of Production
Vivek Anand
Vivek Anand
Colorist
Jakes Bejoy
Jakes Bejoy
Playback Singer
Usha Uthup
Usha Uthup
Playback Singer

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Merlom
Merlom
L2: Empuraan
Was hyped for nothing🫩
Was hyped for nothing🫩
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Sreyas Kota
Sreyas Kota
L2: Empuraan
Pritviraj ur fucking dead to me
Pritviraj ur fucking dead to me
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Medhansh
L2: Empuraan
Director: Prithviraj Sukumaran.I only watched this because someone whose film tastes I appreciated recommended it. Oh boy, was I wrong for that. Now I see how the person who recommended this to me is supporting propaganda. I won't be listening to his recommendations again.The outrage over it is groundless, though. The film fails in the shocking political ideologies down our throat as well, even with using the classic “balancing act” — throwing in Muslim terrorists to show an equal threat to Hindustan, while explaining Hindutva terrorism as merely a symptom of "politics gone wrong"? That’s a bit too neat. On the surface, the film appears anti-Sangh, which, let’s be honest, is still a big deal in today's India, but it ultimately reduces the Left and Congress to little more than irrelevant jesters, trembling in the shadow of Hindutva. Instead of showing Hindutva as wrong, they showed how incompetent the Left is. The censoring and banning of the film makes no sense. It is a shit film irrespective of its political agendas.The politics of the film just left me puzzled. His grasp of national and local political currents still seems rooted in a kind of hollow, pseudo-balanced centrism that ends up being apolitical and even borderline anti-democratic.I had thought that Malayalam cinema is the future of India, but watching such types of films makes me feel that, luckily, they have made some good films in recent years otherwise, they just make mediocre to shitty works.Till now I had seen shitty right wing propaganda but this is the first left wing propoganda release I have seen in recent years.This film is a premium quality of recycled slop, which has been reused many times before. The action, the BGM, and even the set design are all copied from films of this massy nature in the past.The original was massy slop but even that was at least mindlessly enjoyable, this one though is straight up crap.The writing in this is in no way good enough, and the acting itself is flawed. There are also unnecessary scenes in the film, like when Govardhan meets Qureshi. Govardhan is seen carrying a 1990 model satellite phone that is impossible to hack. The super-secretive Qureshi meets him at one of the most popular places on Earth instead of meeting him at some undisclosed location or somewhere private, but no, they. I think the scene only exists so that Sukumaran gets something to film abroad.The angle of rival cartels is also thoroughly uninteresting and downright boring.Mohanlal acted in this film only because it is a sequel otherwise I don't think an actor of his calibre should be doing such shitty films.There are also needless scenes of violence against random people which adds fucking nothing to the movie except some kind of trauma porn. Also, the atrocious score keeps on playing even with its lack of tension. Even if the music was designed to create tension, playing it the entire god damn time makes it nonsensical. It made it difficult to understand what the characters are saying sometimes as well. It is good, I watched it at home, otherwise I would have had to ask for double my money back from the guy who recommended this subpar work to me.The film is rightfully called L2 because it is double the L.
Director: Prithviraj Sukumaran.I only watched this because someone whose film tastes I appreciated recommended it. Oh boy, was I wrong for that. Now I see how the person who recommended this to me is supporting propaganda. I won't be listening to his recommendations again.The outrage over it is groundless, though. The film fails in the shocking political ideologies down our throat as well, even with using the classic “balancing act” — throwing in Muslim terrorists to show an equal threat to Hindustan, while explaining Hindutva terrorism as merely a symptom of "politics gone wrong"? That’s a bit too neat. On the surface, the film appears anti-Sangh, which, let’s be honest, is still a big deal in today's India, but it ultimately reduces the Left and Congress to little more than irrelevant jesters, trembling in the shadow of Hindutva. Instead of showing Hindutva as wrong, they showed how incompetent the Left is. The censoring and banning of the film makes no sense. It is a shit film irrespective of its political agendas.The politics of the film just left me puzzled. His grasp of national and local political currents still seems rooted in a kind of hollow, pseudo-balanced centrism that ends up being apolitical and even borderline anti-democratic.I had thought that Malayalam cinema is the future of India, but watching such types of films makes me feel that, luckily, they have made some good films in recent years otherwise, they just make mediocre to shitty works.Till now I had seen shitty right wing propaganda but this is the first left wing propoganda release I have seen in recent years.This film is a premium quality of recycled slop, which has been reused many times before. The action, the BGM, and even the set design are all copied from films of this massy nature in the past.The original was massy slop but even that was at least mindlessly enjoyable, this one though is straight up crap.The writing in this is in no way good enough, and the acting itself is flawed. There are also unnecessary scenes in the film, like when Govardhan meets Qureshi. Govardhan is seen carrying a 1990 model satellite phone that is impossible to hack. The super-secretive Qureshi meets him at one of the most popular places on Earth instead of meeting him at some undisclosed location or somewhere private, but no, they. I think the scene only exists so that Sukumaran gets something to film abroad.The angle of rival cartels is also thoroughly uninteresting and downright boring.Mohanlal acted in this film only because it is a sequel otherwise I don't think an actor of his calibre should be doing such shitty films.There are also needless scenes of violence against random people which adds fucking nothing to the movie except some kind of trauma porn. Also, the atrocious score keeps on playing even with its lack of tension. Even if the music was designed to create tension, playing it the entire god damn time makes it nonsensical. It made it difficult to understand what the characters are saying sometimes as well. It is good, I watched it at home, otherwise I would have had to ask for double my money back from the guy who recommended this subpar work to me.The film is rightfully called L2 because it is double the L.
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Asha Parvati
Asha Parvati
L2: Empuraan
i almost lost all my self-control and self-respect when prithviraj came on screen in that black kurta.
i almost lost all my self-control and self-respect when prithviraj came on screen in that black kurta.
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Matt Damon
Matt Damon
L2: Empuraan
first few scenes of the movie, i meant the so called controversial ones, i was deeply moved, shocked, appreciated the craft and felt, well, its going to be fun!

turned out it wasn't

empuraan lacks the depth lucifer had.
khureshi lacks the swag stephen had.

and what's with the monotonous loud background score? always high that there wasn't a particular moment of elevation. where's the subtlety?

btw kudos to the well thought out political choice of bringing Gujarat back into the conversation

Would I recommend? NEVER
first few scenes of the movie, i meant the so called controversial ones, i was deeply moved, shocked, appreciated the craft and felt, well, its going to be fun!

turned out it wasn't

empuraan lacks the depth lucifer had.
khureshi lacks the swag stephen had.

and what's with the monotonous loud background score? always high that there wasn't a particular moment of elevation. where's the subtlety?

btw kudos to the well thought out political choice of bringing Gujarat back into the conversation

Would I recommend? NEVER
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