Shylock

<p>Boss alias , a ruthless , provides money to a Prathapa Varma to produce a film. However, Prathapan cheats Boss by not repaying the money, which enrages him. Prathapan is a close friend of a corrupt Felix John. Boss creates a ruckus on Prathapan’s film sets and abduct the film director due to which Prathapan sends men to kill Boss. Boss defeats everyone, including Felix’s son Joel and mocks Prathapan and Felix. Felix charges a fake case that Prathapan’s son Adithyan has gone missing and Boss is behind this. The police arrests Boss, but a video evidence proves that Adithyan is celebrating in with Felix’s daughter Jewel. Felix is forced to release Boss. On the way home, Prathapan confronts Boss and demands to know Adithyan’s whereabouts. Boss reveals that after the video was telecasted, Boss kidnapped and killed Adithyan by using Prathapan’s car claiming it as an accident. During Adityan’s funeral, Felix and Prathapan suspect that Boss was part of a plot that they did before. Boss receives a call, where he rushes to home only to see an old man is awaken from coma. When Boss’s associates ask him, Boss reveals that the old man is his brother Ayyanar and he narrates his past. : Boss used to live with his rich family. Boss’s adopted brother Velumurugan is in love with Poonkuzhali. Poonkuzhali’s family declined their relationship due to caste differences. Boss and Ayyanar fights Poonkuzhali’s elder brother Rangan and his henchman and convinces Poonkuzhali to marry Velumurugan. Rangan is angered by this and teams up with Felix and Prathapan to exact revenge on Boss and his family. Boss leaves for for a few days. During this time, a producer asks Ayyanar for money. Ayyanar agrees, but on the condition that Boss, who aspires to be an actor, should act in the film. Rangan, Rangan’s brother, Felix, Prathapan and their henchmen arrive at Ayyanar’s house and kill the producer and tries to kill Ayyanar, but Ayyanar fights their henchmen. Rangan kills Ayyanar’s wife Lakshmi and Ayyanar kills Rangan. Rangan’s brother realizes that Felix and his men were cheating him and Rangan, where he gets killed by Felix. Adithyan and his henchman kill all the family members, except Ayyanar who is stabbed by Felix. Assuming Ayyanar to be dead, Felix and Prathapan leave. Boss returns that night, only to find his family members dead. Boss finds that Ayyanar is still alive and takes him to a hospital. The doctor says that, after a surgery, Ayyanar will be crippled for life. : Felix and Prathapan also learn about Boss’s past. Boss kidnaps Prathapan’s and Felix’s friend Chacko and Joel. They find Chacko heavily drunk, tied to a chair and Joel dead. Chacko provokes Felix by telling that Boss will kill everyone and they can’t do anything. An enraged Felix kills Chacko. Boss calls him and challenges Prathapan and Felix for a final confrontation in his old house. They both agree to the challenge and reaches the venue, where Boss overpowers their henchman and subdues Felix. Ayyanar stabs Felix to death, while Boss kills Prathapan. With nobody else to trouble him, Boss takes care of Ayyanar and continues his business as Shylock along with Balakrishna Panicker and Ganapathy. Principal photography of the film began on 9 August 2019. joined the sets a week after the shoot started. The film marks the debut of actor in the . Rajkiran and , who had earlier worked in , are acting together after 23 years. Bibin George was chosen for an important role. The art direction of the film was handled by Girish Menon. The film was scheduled for release on 23 January 2020 along with a dubbed version titled . The film was dubbed in , and and released with the same title. The film’s Tamil version, along with a Telugu dub, was released on . The music was composed by . The soundtrack was launched on 18 January 2020. The film received mixed reviews, but was commercial success, and collected (US$1.4 million) in its first weekend. The film collected (US$2.6 million) within 5 days of its release.It completed 400 special shows in 4 days and first ever 4000 housefull shows in mollywood. Shylock may earn up to (US$590,000) in India on its first day. The film has collected (US$1.1 million) worldwide, (US$350,000) overseas on its first day. The film earned (US$410,000) in the Kerala state. The film was opened well on the first day and got an immense occupancy at Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram. Critics claimed that the first half is purely fans stuff and also complained about the routine story but still, Mammotty fans are enjoying the film as the film is entertaining. Kerala Box Office Collection is (US$4.7 million), Overseas Box Office Collection (US$3.3 million),<br /> Rest Of India Box Office Collection (US$820,000) and Tamil dubbed version(2020) Gross (US$350,000) The film collected over (US$8.3 million) at the Worldwide box office against a budget of (US$1.4 million), and is among the . received mixed reviews from critics. Sajin Shrijith of gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote “Shylock is an exuberant celebration of Mammootty, the star, that attempts to milk his charisma to the fullest”. Anjana George of gave 3/5 stars and wrote “For the fans of ‘mega star Mammootty’, Shylock is a treat and for the followers of actor Mammootty, this is a complete ‘no’.” Cris from wrote “Yet another Mammootty ‘mass’ movie that numbs the mind. It is running out of boring descriptions for itself”. Manoj Kumar R. of gave 1/5 stars and wrote “You know this story. You know how things would pan out. And you know what happens to the bad guys even before the film arrives at its depressingly predictable climax”. of wrote that “To compensate perhaps for the absolute lack of novelty in the script, camerawork and all else here, multiple references are made to other films and their Tamil superstars.</p>