Saturday, June 14, 2025

Topic: Malayalam

L2: Empuraan takes a stand politically but stumbles narratively

Prithviraj Sukumaran’s L2: Empuraan expands Lucifer (2019), fully realizing Stephen Nedumpally as Khureshi Ab’raam, and while it boldly takes a stand on saffron politics and amplifies scale and spectacle, it falters in narrative cohesion.