Rajkummar Rao still from ‘Maalik’. Photo Credit: Tips Movies/YouTube
Rajkummar Rao is undergoing a purple patch. Taking a break from his comic capers, this week is a product of actor Cape of a Outlave, social injustice, which he sets to wipe what he sets to wipe becomes a mirror image of his mirror.
Owner Manoj looks like a spiritual cousin of Bajpayee BrotherWhich was released last year. Both films were understood, which reveals a bombing, in the mainstream atmosphere in a realistic place. Whereas Brother After establishing the struggle completely stopped, Owner Its moments in the form of writer-director Pulkit, which manages to create mood that we associate with Tigmanshu Dhulia’s cinema.
The film has been set up in the feudal Allahabad of the late 1980s, where Deepak (Rajkumar), son of a farm worker (a solid Rajendra Gupta), takes the title of rebels and ‘Malik’ to become a ganglord against rebels against the landlords. History sheets like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar police station Deepak are filled with case files, who picked up guns due to caste or class struggle, and were adopted by politicians to maintain the balance of power. The king lends flawed character to meat and blood, and the approximate character adds spark to the arc.

Malik (Hindi)
Director: Pulkit
Mold: Rajkummar Rao, Manashi Chillar, Prosecut Chatterjee, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendra Gupta, Saurabh Sachdeva
Order: 152 minutes
Story: This is the story of the rise of a gangster in the socio-politically charged areas of Uttar Pradesh in the 1980s.
The locations are not decorative, dynamics have dynamite marks, and led by politicians posture, Saurabh Shukla and Swanand Kirkire, seem realistic. Politician-criminal Nexus has told several times before with an episode of revenge and betrayal. In such stories, the leader becomes a responsibility after a point, and the love of the gangster considers the moral center of the story. Here, Manushi Chillar plays that forecasted part well.
The surprise package is Proponjit Chatterjee, as the aging expert was brought to hunt Malik as an expert. With his Bengali touch and stylish demoner, the experienced artist brings freshness to a stock character. Ansuman Pushkar and Saurabh Sachdeva match the magical shaving of Raj so that we do not allow them to flex their muscles beyond one point to join and grind the region, but the screenplay does not allow them to flex them.

Still from ‘Maalik’. Photo Credit: Tips Movies/YouTube
Pacing is problematic, editing is uneven, and the narrative contradictions are abandoned. The set pieces are holding, but their tail is relaxed. The attractive item number composed by Sachin Jigar – and was appropriately performed by Huma Qureshi – it is also adjusted in the story. So what is the background score that considers his life on important junctions and is not integrated into the story. The film winning scenes and language are eligible to avoid an adult certificate.
Overall, it seems that the manufacturers are under the notion that they are telling some novels, perhaps, the effort should have been to hide. At 152 minutes, the picture pixels, and one is picked up. However, the climax with a dancing process and characteristic of a scallting secret once again injects adrenaline.
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Published – July 11, 2025 05:51 pm IST