If you are looking for new works featuring "villainous" or dark roles: Detective Ujjwalan
These villains spoke in pure Malayalam —not the street slang, but the aristocratic, venomous kind. They would pull a knife from inside their mundu , chew thamboolam , and deliver lines that are still memes today. Their work was about pride, land, and abhimanam (ego). Simple, but epic. malluvillain malayalam movie work