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But the movie flopped and so he took a long sabbatical, by enrolling in an engineering course in the United States.īut he lost interest in the discipline, quit his course halfway and started attending acting workshops. Such challenges, however, are not new for the actor, whose initial years in cinema were not as rewarding.įaasil made his cinematic debut in 2002 at the age of 19 in a romantic film, Kaiyethum Doorath, directed by his father Fazil. That was the challenging aspect – to portray that growth … With this movie, I have pushed myself,” Faasil told Al Jazeera. It is not just me who is going through the time leap, every actor in the movie is growing in that sense. “The film shows 30 years of the life of the character. It marks another first for Faasil, considering he had not yet played a character older than his actual age. The actor had to live through various stages in the life of the character – from his youth to old age. Faasil in a still from Joji, based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth So for someone who has until now played the Ordinary Joe, the idiosyncratic guy next door or, lately, the twisted psychopath, Malik is a first – a textbook hero with an epic sweep, span and mass appeal. In Malik, Faasil plays the titular character, Sulaiman Malik aka Ali Ikka, a man of humble origins who indulges in smuggling, politics, crime and corruption to become a leader of his people and the community. A shift in gear, a possible game changer for someone who is considered the main protagonist of a “New Wave” in Malayalam cinema. The film is as much a continuum for Faasil as it marks a significant new turn in his 20-year journey in cinema.
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Malik, directed by Mahesh Narayanan, with whom Faasil has done some commendable work, is a substantive addition to the actor’s celebrated filmography of nearly 50 titles. Faasil, (left), in Malik, his third outing with Mahesh Narayanan after Take Off and C U Soon

“The audience should be able to relate to the stories,” he told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview. His characters – black, white, or grey – must be credible. Everything has to be as real as how you experience it,” says the 38-year-old actor-producer on the eve of the release of his new film, Malik, on Amazon Prime Video.įaasil’s touchstone for his films – whether a romance, comedy, period drama, gangster saga or thriller – has been plausibility. “Cinema should be as real as looking out of the window. New Delhi, India – If Fahadh Faasil, a star of Malayalam language cinema in India’s Kerala state, were to write a rulebook on filmmaking, its key canons would be authenticity and honesty.
