The presence of Mammootty and Mohanlal in the film, written and directed by Mahesh Narayanan, naturally brings a lot of hype, but the enterprise lacks the necessary vitality to justify any of the big casting choices
"All politicians are cousins. All are corrupt, among them not even a single PATRIOT! That's this country's curse." This is just a part of a fiery, elaborate monologue delivered by Mammootty in the climax of the 1986 I.V. Sasi film "Vaartha". It also happens to be a Mohanlal film. Scripted by T. Damodharan, the film gave them both equal significance. I have a couple of reasons for bringing up this film. One, Mahesh Narayanan is a fan of the I.V. Sasi-T. Damodharan films, so I assume the title's inspiration is that dialogue. Two, his new film "Patriot" has Mammootty and Mohanlal teaming up together to fight an evil system, just like they did in that film. No, it is not a remake of that film — it's not as pessimistic in terms of tone. But I do see "Patriot" as a sort of spiritual sibling.
What if Madhavan Kutty — Mammootty's firebrand senior journalist from "Vaartha" — was reimagined as an Edward Snowden-type scientific advisor-turned-whistleblower? Mammootty's Dr Daniel James (Mammootty), from "Patriot", is a defence expert with the guts to do what many journalists cannot in a post-2014 era. There are no flags of a certain colour to indicate that the villains of this film belong to a specific party, but judging by some of the lingo used by them, it's plainly...
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