Malik

Malik (2021) is a Malayalam crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Mahesh Narayanan, it stars Fahadh Faasil as Sulaiman, an aging community patriarch on the Kerala coast. A teenage relative named Freddy is sent to kill him inside prison — and the people who gave that order are his own.

From there the film folds backward. Different witnesses recall how a fisherman's son rose to command entire neighbourhoods, and what it cost him: smuggling, faith, riots, betrayal at the dinner table. Running close to three hours, it grips through slow revelation rather than gunfire, constantly shifting who you think is the victim and who the executioner.

Loosely drawn from real events along the Malabar coast, Narayanan keeps the truth deliberately unstable — every account contradicts the last. One unbroken eleven-minute tracking shot has already been dissected frame by frame in film schools. Malayalam cinema rarely reaches a wide audience; this is the one to start with. Stream Malik (2021) online on iFILM.