Malayalam cinema week three of June delivers strong OTT content across SonyLIV, Prime Video, and Netflix. The industry's best titles from recent years are all accessible right now. Drishyam, Joji, Kumbalangi Nights, Minnal Murali — if you haven't watched these, week three is your moment.
SonyLIV Malayalam: Week Three Picks
SonyLIV holds Bheeshma Parvam and Kaduva — two of Mollywood's biggest recent mass entertainers. Mammootty's Bheeshma Parvam is the kind of controlled, old-school Mollywood mass film that rarely gets made anymore. Prithviraj's Kaduva delivers exactly what it promises: confrontation and swagger. Both are SonyLIV exclusives and both hit differently when watched on a good screen.
Prime Video Malayalam: Core Catalog
Prime Video holds the deepest Malayalam catalog. Drishyam and Drishyam 2 remain the franchise standard for Malayalam thriller writing — Mohanlal's Georgekutty is one of the best characters in modern Indian cinema. Joji, the Macbeth-inspired crime drama, is Fahadh Faasil at peak form. Malik gives Fahadh a completely different register — sprawling, political, ambitious. Ayyappanum Koshiyum is the two-hander conflict film that every action film of the last three years has been compared to.
Joji
Fahadh Faasil in a Kerala Macbeth. Greed, silence, and slow-burn tension. One of the best Malayalam films of 2021.
Prime Video
Drishyam
Mohanlal as Georgekutty — the man who studied crime films to commit the perfect crime. The original Drishyam remains a masterclass in thriller construction.
Prime Video
Drishyam 2
Six years later. Georgekutty is still keeping the family secret. A rare sequel that matches and arguably surpasses the original.
Prime Video
Bheeshma Parvam
Mammootty's old-school mass entertainer. Family patriarch, crime, loyalty. SonyLIV's biggest Malayalam acquisition of 2022.
SonyLIV
Kaduva
Prithviraj Sukumaran vs. a vindictive police officer. Pure conflict cinema. Exactly what it promises to be.
SonyLIV
Ayyappanum Koshiyum
Biju Menon and Prithviraj in the conflict film every Mollywood director is still writing in reaction to. Ego versus ego on a collision course.
SonyLIV
Malik
Fahadh Faasil as a coastal community leader across decades of political conflict. One of Prime Video Malayalam's finest originals.
Prime Video
Kumbalangi Nights
Four brothers, a dysfunctional household, and one controlling villain who represents toxic masculinity at its worst. Syam Pushkaran's writing is exceptional.
Prime Video
Minnal Murali
Kerala's superhero film. Tovino Thomas and a villain who earns genuine sympathy. Netflix's best Malayalam investment.
Netflix
Manjummel Boys
The cave rescue thriller that crossed every language barrier. 25 friends, one cave, pure survival tension for the final act.
Prime Video
2018
The Kerala floods disaster film. Ensemble cast, real tragedy, devastating emotional impact. One of the best disaster films made in India.
Netflix
The Great Indian Kitchen
The most discussed Malayalam film of 2021. A woman's daily domestic labour shown without sentimentality. Unavoidable.
Neestream
Trance
Fahadh Faasil as a motivational speaker turned cult leader. Ambitious, visually distinct, and unlike anything else in Mollywood.
Prime Video
Jallikattu
Lijo Jose Pellissery's feral crowd-versus-bull thriller. One of the most formally daring Malayalam films of recent years.
Prime Video
Angamaly Diaries
Lijo Jose Pellissery's breakout — a young man's rise through Angamaly's street crime world. Kinetic and vivid.
SunNXT
Nna Thaan Case Kodu
Kunchacko Boban in a sharp courtroom comedy about an accident case that spirals. One of 2022's most rewatchable Malayalam films.
SonyLIV
Mayanadhi
Aashiq Abu's lyrical crime romance. Tovino Thomas and Aishwarya Lekshmi. Among the most beautiful-looking films of the decade.
SunNXT