October 29, 2022
Appan
Director: Maju
Starring: Sunny Wayne, Ananya, Grace Antony
India release date: Oct 28
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Social Issue
Certification: UA 13+
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 129 mins
“Remorseless exploration of a family pushed to boiling point by a patriarch from hell…. Christian themes of suffering, temptation and absolution slosh about in a nightmare that leads all the way up to Christmas.”
Nandini Ramnath, Scroll
“In a society that finds ways to point fingers at women for the intimate-partner violence they face, it is common to ask: why didn’t she leave? Here in Appan, though Kuttyamma is blamed by at least one character for tolerating Itty, we also witness a gender role reversal and find the answer to a question no one asks: why doesn’t he leave?”
Rating: 3 stars | Full review
Anna MM Vetticad, First Post
“Appan might remind one of the films that occupied the Malayalam television realm in the mid-90s before the tacky soap operas usurped the space.”
Aswathy Gopalakrishnan, Film Companion
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