Mohanlal, a five-time National Award winner, is undoubtedly one of the most versatile stars to have emerged from the Malayalam film industry. In Monster, he is also disguised as a Sikh man – with bhangra music underlining his smarts to make the proceedings even more unbearable. These films present a bored Mohanlal going through the motions in an uninspired script. A larger-than-life hero is presented as irresistible to women, despite his misogynistic double entendres, bombastic action sequences and punch dialogues - all of which contain innumerable nods to the actor’s earlier films. Monster follows the same template as previous Mohanlal films that have turned out to be disasters. Yet even the superstar’s fans aren’t surprised. Monster, which released in October this year, has barely made Rs 5.5 crore. Six years down the line, however, the same director-actor combination has delivered a colossal dud. Not only was it a massive hit in Kerala, it also did well in the Telugu states where it opened in 500 screens.
The action thriller saw Mohanlal play a truck driver who hunts man-eating tigers. In 2016, Vysakh’s Pulimurugan, starring Mohanlal in the lead, became the first Malayalam film to earn Rs 100 crore at the box office.
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