Gold - Malayalam Movie Mini Review

Watching Gold felt like listening to a toddler narrate a story. There are a lot of substories with multiple detours that are hard to keep track of. New actors are introduced Willy nilly with a lot of fanfare to then find out they are pointless to the plot (which is hanging on a one liner).

The poster below depicts the movie perfectly. Because it’s just 160 minutes of Prithviraj Joshi) running back and forth from the Bolero pick-up with gold to his house. There are extended 5 minute shots of him running in slow motion and also arranging the “speakers” (which are 1 kg gold bars). Bolero is a paid actor I guess because of the number of times the characters say bolero.

Talking about paid actors, the sky, ants, grasshoppers and random bugs and rodents are also paid actors because of how much screen time they get. They have more screen time than the lead actress “lady superstar Nayanthara” 🙄

There’s a lot of text on screen while introducing characters which was interesting in the start and then quickly gets old because you know these characters aren’t important. It’s more like showing off the Who’s who of Mollywood.

There’s some lazy ass choreography because there’s this one dance of a troop bending backwards like a spider in pain and miming a rope lift to get up. You know who has better steps? Dance Master a Vikram (IYKYK)

And ultimately the toddling story ends in an underwhelming climax because the narrator, the actors, the audience and even the bolero has literally lost the plot.

Verdict - 2/5 Bolero, I mean stars.

This movie could have been an email.