Great opening for 1971 Beyond Borders

Mohanlal’s highly anticipated movie 1971 Beyond Borders was finally released today. The movie had a massive opening in 405 screens all over India, which is the biggest ever for a Malayalam movie.

1971 Beyond Borders, directed by Major Ravi is the fourth in the Major Mahadevan series and his fifth with Mohanlal. Though the reviews are mostly mixed, mainly due to the clichés and the usual storytelling pattern, it is Mohanlal’s tremendous performance that has saved the movie.

The actor has almost single handedly steered the ship to safety. Mohanlal’s recent rich form also ensured a huge opening for the movie. The official first day collection reports will be out tomorrow but we are certain that it will be a big figure, majorly due to the 405 screens release.

Mohanlal is riding on a string of blockbusters, a hat-trick of 50 crore grossers to be precise. In 1971 Beyond Borders, the actor has played dual roles and appeared in three different looks.

The film is based on the 1971 Indo-Pak war and is made big budget movie. It is produced by Haneef Muhammed under the banner Red Rose Creations. The movie features a stellar star cast in Telugu actor Allu Sirish, Arunoday Singh, Srushti Dange, Priyanka Agarwal, Zoya Zayed Khan and many other actors.

Sujith Vassudev has handled the cinematography. Songs in the movie are composed by three music directors— Najim Arshad, Siddharth Vipin, and Rahul Subramanian. Background score is handled by Gopi Sunder.