Thoughts on L2:Empuraan

Thoughts on L2:Empuraan - A jot down

27'th March 2025. I was there for Empuraan's FDFS. My first FDFS, and the most hyped Malayalam movie after 2018’s Odiyan. I was taking it all in!

Musings

The pal before L3 (the palpayasam).

Honestly a bit disappointed, but the sentence above gives me solace.

Too much exposure for KA. It’s jarring to see A10 in his all-black outfit. Too many scenes

Fight scenes and Masood’s flashback stretched out a lot and could be trimmed. Some more scenes in Kerala could have been shown, around IUF. With every international location, the movie did keep me throwing off

Standout scene was A10’s fight scene in the forest, with that mund madukki kuth. That Bineesh Bastin lookalike was good. Stephen’s bodyguards are standing still while he takes on the maoists.

Manju chechi looks stunning. Rajuettan looks dashing with his black outfit during the shootout. Same with Manikuttan

Baiju could have been given more satirical dialogues like in Lucifer. The only character worth looking at, for a laugh. Suraj’s back and forth with Manikuttan and that Trivandrum slang from the trio was keeping me engaged. The handful for laughable moments from the movie

Sujith Vasudev, the art department and location scouting team cooked. Worth waiting for Usha Uthup’s rendition of Azarel during the post-movie credit roll

It’s fun seeing Kok annan’s meltdown on his review

My takeaways

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