Moothon

Moothon (The Elder one)
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeetu Mohandas
Written byGeetu Mohandas
Hindi Dialogues by
Produced byAnurag Kashyap
S. Vinod Kumar
Ajay G. Rai
Alan McAlex
StarringNivin Pauly
Shashank Arora
Sanjana Dipu
Sobhita Dhulipala
Melissa Raju Thomas
Roshan Mathew
CinematographyRajeev Ravi
Edited byB. Ajithkumar
Kiran Das
Music bySongs:
Shashank Arora
Score:
Sagar Desai
Production
companies
JAR Pictures
Good Bad Films
Mini Studio
Distributed byMini Studio
Release dates
Running time
110 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesMalayalam
Hindi

Moothon (transl.  The Elder One),[1] also known internationally as The Elder One,[2] is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film[3][4] written and directed by Geetu Mohandas, and jointly produced by S. Vinod Kumar, Anurag Kashyap, Ajay G. Rai and Alan McAlex. Featuring a bilingual narrative in the Jeseri dialect of Malayalam and Arabic, the film stars Nivin Pauly, Shashank Arora, Sobhita Dhulipala, Melissa Raju Thomas, Sanjana Dipu and Roshan Mathew. Hindi-language dialogues were written by Anurag Kashyap. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and received a positive critical response. It was included in The Hindu's top 25 Malayalam films of the decade and is widely regarded as one of the defining movies of the New Wave Movement.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Hindu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ "Geetu Mohandas' action thriller 'Moothon' to open MAMI Mumbai film festival 2019". Times of India. 13 August 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Moothon, Geetu Mohandas' Malayalam action thriller, will open 21st edition of MAMI Mumbai Film Festival". Firstpost. 13 August 2019. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  5. ^ Nagarajan, Saraswathy (19 December 2019). "The 25 best Malayalam films of the decade". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.