Balti
Action Drama Romance Malayalam
A star kabaddi player's life takes a dangerous turn when he's pulled into the criminal underworld.
| Cast: | Shane Nigam, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Preethi Asrani, Shiva Hariharan, Alphonse Puthren, Selvaraghavan |
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| Director: | Unni Sivalingam |
| Writer: | Unni Sivalingam |
| Editor: | Shivkumar V. Panicker |
| Camera: | Alex J. Pulickal |
Guild Reviews
Shane Nigam, Shanthanu's promising crime drama drowns in cliches
‘Balti’ opens with a gory murder and the four friends, who meticulously plan and commit the crime. Minutes after the crime, they quickly change their outfits and take part in a temple ritual. With pulsating music from the find of this decade, Sai Abhyankkar, the film grabs your attention from the first frame. But, does it hold your attention throughout? Let’s find out!
Action papers over clichés and patchy writing
Balti comes accompanied with the tag of a ‘sports action film’, with Kabaddi being the sport in the spotlight. For a while in the beginning, debutant filmmaker Unni Sivalingam appears to be keen on living up to this tag, serving us some intensely fought and tastefully shot Kabaddi matches. But by the halfway point, Kabaddi gets firmly pushed to the background, only for a glimpse of it to be shown in the epilogue.
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