Marakkar: Lion Of The Arabian Sea

Released On - 25 Dec 2020 2hr 11min

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Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham, is an upcoming Indian Malayalam-language historical epic war film co-written and directed by Priyadarshan. Set in the 16th century, the film depicts the battle exploits.

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Suniel Shetty

Main Lead Actor

Arjun Sarja

Main Lead Actor

Mohanlal

Main Lead Actor

Keerthy Suresh

Main Lead Actress

Manju Warrier

Main Lead Actress

Kalyani Priyadarshan

Main Lead Actress

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Antony Perumbavoor

Producer

Roy CJ

Producer

Santhosh T Kuruvilla

Producer

Priyadarshan

Director

Ronnie Raphael

Music Director

Priyadarshan

Story Writer

"Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea" is a 2021 Indian Malayalam-language epic historical action drama film written and directed by Priyadarshan and produced under Antony Perumbavoor's Aashirvad Cinemas. The movie is about 16th-century coastal Kerala and stars Mohanlal, Pranav Mohanlal, Arjun Sarja, and Suniel Shetty. The movie is about the dramatic life of Muhammad Ali, the fourth Kunjali Marakkar and naval commander of Zamorin, who rose to be a fierce defender of Malabar's coast from Portuguese colonization.

In the late 1500s, the Portuguese allied with the Kochi kingdom to defeat Kozhikode. Portuguese commander Alfonso de Noronha equips Kochi warriors with arms in return for cereals and spices. Their Cartaz system forbids local merchants from engaging in unrestricted trade with Arabs, which creates unrest. Merchant Kuttiyali Marakkar (Mohanlal) attempts to circumvent the system, but betrayal by his brother-in-law Moidu proves disastrous. The Marakkars, former soldiers, had become traders after one of them succumbed to a premature war.

Young bridegroom and newlywed to Aisha (Kalyani Priyandarshan), Muhammad Ali is turned around by his life when both are ambushed in a Portuguese raid. Aisha gets killed, and Muhammad gets wrongly accused. Bitter for revenge, he kills Moidu and, surviving a ship storm at sea, reaches Ponnani. He meets leaders Achuthan and Anandan there. Muhammad is reborn from the ashes as the feared freedom fighter Kunjali Marakkar by looting corrupt nobles and saving the people.

With the growing reputation of Marakkar, his guerrilla warfare pesters the Portuguese. Aided by allies like the Chinese warrior Chiang, himself an enslaved person, he wages an exhausting war. He is made a naval commander due to his courage. But internal political intrigue, with the jealous Achuthan in particular, eventually causes his defeat. Imprisoned and taken to Goa, Kunjali Marakkar is beheaded when he refuses to surrender to colonial imperialism, emerging as a legend in history as a martyr and lion of the Arabian Sea.