Solo

2017 ‘സോളോ’ Directed by Bejoy Nambiar

An experimental romantic thriller, Solo is the story of four different men, their love, rage and afterlife. Through four elements - water, air, fire and earth, they also represent different facets of Lord Siva.

Dulquer Salmaan Sai Dhanshika Sruthi Hariharan Neha Sharma Deepti Sati Anson Paul Nassar Suhasini Maniratnam Dino Morea Sujata Sehgal Manit Joura Arthi Venkatesh Manoj K Jayan Ann Augustine Prakash Belawadi Sai Tamhankar Dinesh Prabhakar Govindh Vasantha Peethambaran Menon Asha Jayaram Rohan Manoj Soubin Shahir Sathish John Vijay Sheelu Abraham Qaushiq Mukherjee Siddharth Menon Suresh Chandra Menon Anupama Kumar Show All… Renji Panicker

Alternative Titles

സോലോ, சோலோ, Athadey

romance thriller action

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Popular reviews

Review by Pruthveshwar ★★★½ 2

Anthology films are rarest of the rare in Indian cinema. I am clearly very late in discovering this film, but I am pleased that I finally did.
Music and Cinematography are the biggest assets of this film. Bejyo's writing and direction style are good but somehow lacks depth at times. After a point, it became repetitive! For me, The Cyclist story was the biggest surprise. That one moved me the most.
There is a lot of cynicism and philosophy in these stories and I am glad this movie exists.
Also, those Lord Shiva artworks! Wah! Aham Brahmasmi!
Review by Vigniche ★★ 2

Solo, the bi-lingual anthology film from Bollywood filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar, is not an experiment gone wrong per se, but is littered with bizarre moments which are either embarrassing or enlightening, depending on the sensibility of the viewer.
Starring Dulquer Salmaan in four different roles, 'Solo' sounds like a misleading title for Nambiar's film. But, it is essentially about different avatars of one supreme entity, clearly revealed as Lord Shiva. Shiva's status as a demigod in Indian mythology, is translated on screen through the committed all-round performance from Dulquer. He totally nails this four-fold interpretation of Shiva, with the basic constants of extreme rage and extreme love transcending the character, story and its all-encompassing hero. Granted, he is again asked to…
Review by Naveen Michaels ★★★★

Dulquer Salmaan is such an effortless & versatile actor.
I feel like when it comes to the movie, one will either like it or hate it. Fortunately I fall in the former. This movie is pretty brilliant. One may not realised it while watching it but when you breakdown & analyse the metaphor, imagery, colours & various aspects of it, you will appreciate & enjoy the sheer brilliance.
Review by pratz ★★★½

Bijoy Nambiar is a terrific director but he should try directing someone else's script.
Review by Shweta Prakash ★★★★

4 character facets of Lord shiva - Love, vengeance, anger, loss.
4 different stories.
4 different contexts.
4 excellent performances by Dalquer.
Each story has a kick that you would not see coming. Mind-blowing, I repeat mind-blowing storytelling & writing. I'm still in awe.
One of the most underrated movies.
Review by Ivan Nagar ★★½ 4

maan it took them 3 years to have sex? what a shitty relationship
Review by Heera ★

one star is for the siva part.
Review by Jim Lind ★★★★ 1

I liked the sarcastic robots and the heist aspects. It was a good standalone Star Wars film. The part where they introduced the leader of Crimson Dawn took me out of the moment.
Review by Muhammed Munavvir V V ★★★

Got better and better till the third story , then ended with a weird aftertaste.
Review by crocodilecamera ★★★

1st film- cringe as fuck
2nd- good plot
3rd- brilliant, that aspect ratio no 🤤
4th- cringe but not as cringe as the first one
Review by Jacksmeels ★★★★

I had a great time but I also used to eat sand and I get sad sometimes
Review by aliya ★★½

How to feel good about solo ?
Just watch the shiva part :)))).
I wish I could see more of dulquer as shiva ♥️
*Shiva deserves to be a feature length movie*

Recent reviews

Review by MoneyBum ★★★½

This anthology is fairly well done, some stories are better made than others and some just have endings that either makes it or breaks it, my favourites are probably the first two, the first one i think they handled the romance pretty well even though it did feel like it was rushed at the start and the ending was predictable but done well enough
The second one with the plot twist i liked it, and i liked that it took him that long to find the culprit of what happened sure there are some leaps in logic but overall it is done in a good way
The third one is kind of weak it started pretty strong but then as…
Review by Musanna Ahmed ★★½

चौथी कहानी में, जब ढोल शुरू हुआ, मुझे लगा कि वे एक नृत्य लड़ाई करने जा रहे हैं
Review by Aadisan ★

Hand me a towel, I'm dirty dancing by myself,gone off tabs Of that acid
Form me a circle,watch my jagger
Might lose my jacket and hit a solo..
Oh nvm ☹️
Review by Saadia ★★★

aesthetics wise really nice, only about half of the stories hit for me though
Review by Muzammil Shahid Ch ★★★★

It felt like Writer had run out of Ideas to conclude the Earth Segment, it just went so wtf that nothing could justify it imo.
Apart from that, A really well made well acted Movie
Dulquer Salman OP
Review by itsoliviajordan ★★★

Didn’t feel like I was watching a Star Wars movie — but still enjoyable.
Review by A R ★★★

Solo is an interesting attempt; however, not all of its stories are interesting. For me, personally, World of Shekar and Rudra were the best. Trilok was absolutely forgettable, and Shiva was just violence and aggression left and right.
Review by sam ★★★★

kinda sad I didn’t check this out in theaters. it was a blast. lando is charming, L3 is hilarious, chewie is great, and even han felt like himself.
ALSO HOLY SHIT THE END?????? PLEASE CONTINUE THIS SERIES????
Review by Surya ★★½

I was really hyped to watch this film! And it comes both as disappointing and satisfying! I truly loved the story of Shiva, whereas Trilok's story was predictable yet decent enough! Whereas Rudra's story starts off pretty off but has a twist that makes it better than that of shekhar which is pretty much forgettable. That's 2/4 of good stories in this anthology film. I truly appreciate the makers for making an Anthology as they are still very rare in Indian cinema. I do love the concept of Lord Shiva to each character with 4 different accepts like Love, vengeance, anger, loss to each story but somewhere there was a terrible fault in the execution part!
On the technical front…
Review by soujanya

It's like an unforgettable story!
Some dialogues touched my heart.
"When iam not beside you , when iam not in your thoughts or memories will you still love me?😭❤️💔"
Review by msbelivets ★★★½

Solo ran so that Paava Kadhaigal could walk.
Review by Nicki ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

extremely iconic of this movie to, instead of killing off the doomed love interest, making her evil