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Critics Review
0.25
Mohanlal's cringey acting as a Sikh rivals the script's creepy homophobia
The stereotyping of LGBT-plus persons in Monster is unrelenting. A lesbian couple are filmed through an unapologetically lascivious lens � bosoms heaving as they hungrily tear into each other with their eyes before their bodies collide with an animal fervour, unmindful of the company in the room � in a scene evidently designed to cater to a common cis-heterosexual male fantasy of watching women make love to each other. In a country where conservatives often describe homosexuality as a �Western concept�, Monster even has an English song playing in the background while summarising a same-gender romance in the storyline.(more)
Source: Anna, Firstpost.com
2.00
A homophobic failure
The film is all about a monster who has the choice to use the trust of his fans to take up the Malayalam cinema or to bring it down. Well, do fans and films need any logic?(more)
Source: TOI, Times Of India
2.00
This Mohanlal film is outright offensive
It�s time Mohanlal stops signing every film that comes to his reading table. Instead, he has to pick the projects that honour his formidable body of work spanning over four decades. This is not the movie for a versatile actor who has given us Iruvar, Kireedam and Drishyam. This is a film for amateurs and is not meant to be performed by a cinema giant.(more)
Source: Manoj Kumar, Indian Express