Aryan movie is all about Devanarayan (Mohanlal) who is a Brahmin priest who is falsely accused of theft and forced to leave his village in Kerala. He moves to Bombay where he gets drawn into the underworld through an ageing don Kareem (Goga Kapoor). Some interesting comment initially on Brahmin priesthood in Kerala, but halfway through the film goes haywire.
Acting
Mohanlal's priest-to-don transformation is unhinged brilliance.
Direction
Priyadarshan loses the plot literally, fascinatingly.
Director
Priyadarshan
Mohanlal
Devanarayanan Namboothiri/Devan
Ramya Krishnan
Nirmala/Nimmi
Monisha Unni
Sainaba/Sainu
Shobana
Aswathy
Balan K Nair
Kunjali
Kuthiravattam Pappu
Hassan
Priya
Subhadra
Sithara
Dhathrikutty
Sukumari
Thampuratti
Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair
Namboothiri Thampuran
Sreenath
Unnikrishnan
Sharat Saxena
Majeed Khan
Kundara Johny
Nair
Innocent
Govindan Nair
Sreenivasan
Sakhavu Karunan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The first half's Kerala Brahmin milieu is rare mainstream cinema texture; its abandonment for Bombay gangster tropes mirrors the protagonist's own lost identity.
Mohanlal was simultaneously shooting for this and Chithram, creating his own career whiplash between sacred and profane.
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