Alone

Mohanlal's film #Alone directed by Shajikailas is an experimental movie that can claim its uniqueness..The script written by Rajesh Jayaraman based on the time of covid, with the magnificent performance of the great actor Mohanlal and the direction of the hit maker director Shajikailas, even the audience who came to the theater without any expectations were applauded.

#Alone is truly a daring experiment..to keep the audience in the theater for more than two hours with one actor and location..only a great director and an actor who makes the audience sit in the theater can take that risk..Shajikailas and Mohanlal have succeeded 100% in that regard..

For this film, there was no grand promotions or online channels and the crew did not share it. All that was in front of the audience was a good trailer.

Overall, this is a Mohanlal film..those who have been waiting for Lal as an actor...those who measure his acting skills, #Elon will be a delicious meal.

And #Natural Acting, in some scenes the actor Mohanlal will teach us through this film as a sample shot..

Before digging in to the core, let's share the positive side of the movie. The location (the flat) is well lit and not a single frame is out of order. The camera angles and visualisation attempt are very well done. It's gives the very feeling like we , the viewer is in the very place throughout the movie.

Lal has done almost a good job as a single actor before the camera with just voice support of other artist to carry on. But still on few scenes the usage of strong bgm doesn't fits the scenario. And it resulted in a way like over reacting with philosophical dialogues also which adds to the mess.

Now for the plot, the movie's length is pretty high, should have wrapped it under 90 minutes before the viewers start feeling bored.

A few scenes are much like repeated and felt like it's been shown again For example the familiar Corona announcement before each phone call is practically familiar to everyone, but it's beg forced to be in frame every single time.

Not sure whether how many even fans too will watch and enjoy this movie, in the way out was meant to be enjoyed. In short it was meant to be good work, but failed in execution miserably with the just the climax to relish.

The movie should have given justice to the audience the same thrilling experience they have gifted in the last few minutes before the curtain fall. Luckily i watched in OTT than in big screen.

Director Shaji Kailas has made a good mystery/thriller movie that has only one character in "Alone". Mohanlal pulls off the one man-movie with ease and elegance. The movie has an average first half flowed by a good second half and climax. Go with low expectations and if you are a fan of the actor you may like it.

Performance wise we have Mohanlal on screen, and Manju Warrier, Prithviraj, Baiju, Siddique, and others as voice artists.

The dialogues could've been a little more sharper and that would've pulled the movie up a few notches. This is a welcome change for Lalettan in 2023. I am a fan of the actor and I felt the movie was overall a good watch.

I am shocked that such a pathetic movie is a product of Malayalam industry and it involves one of legendary actors like Mohanlal. It hurts!

I have a lot of respect for Mohanlal but his acting in this movie is horrible. Everything in this movie is horrible. Supposed to be funny jokes are cartoonish, mystery is childish, dialogues are over the top. IMO just like other characters, if mohanlal also disappeared from screen and voices were muted and just a blank screen was shown for 2 hours probably that would have been better movie.

This is just a naive mixture of ideas ripped off from Hollywood movies like shutter island, memento and tried to be served as a cerebral thriller. But ends up sending audience to coma.

Why do you need to copy Hollywood when you can give original movies like Drishyam. I am stunned that when Mammootty these days is delivering amazing movies which are pushing boundaries and making us think, why Mohanlal is acting in these stupid, pathetic movies. Mohanlal sir, please choose better scripts from now on.

As a big mohanlal fan, I request him not to act in movies like monster and alone which is shot inside a flat alone for running time more than one hour. This movie was worse than monster. Going from kitchen to living room to bed room of a flat and vice versa is lagging to the core. Don't give lockdown excuses. Lockdowns are over. Normal life has returned. Such experiments of shooting with a single actor on screen and only voices of other actors won't work in Indian film industry. This movie has little resemblance to shutter island, Athiran etc . Only positive is Mohanlals acting and dialogue delivery . This movie is not even OTT worth.