Martin Movie Review Martin is one of the biggest Kannada releases this year. The film, which took 3 years in the making, had a delayed start in several theatres, both single screens and multiplexes. On Friday morning, there were even rumours about the film’s release being pushed, again, on social media. But at last, Martin has arrived, in style, guns blazing, this festive season. Does the movie justify the three-year wait? Yes, and No.
The movie begins with a uniquely choreographed action scene set in Pakistan. The scene ends with a man wearing a ‘bad boy’ jacket falling from the building. There is no face reveal, yet. The scene then shifts to a hospital where we are then introduced to an Indian man, who is said to be a beast with a power of ten elephants. He hits everyone around him, and after much difficulty, doctors find out that the man is suffering from anterograde amnesia. He now has to find out who he is. In the course of the first 30 minutes, he asks ‘who am I’ multiple times in multiple languages, till it becomes boring and repetitive, making the audience wonder if he is going to ask ‘who is he’ in all 13 languages the film is releasing in. Thankfully he doesn’t, and stops at 5. He is then put in a prison in Pakistan, but he escapes and follows a thread only to find out that he is ‘Arjun’ who has landed in Pakistan to find ‘Martin’. Thus brings another set of questions - ‘Who is Martin’.
A journey of a man discovering himself, finding love and fighting for his motherland. Can he hold the fort on all three gates?
