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Patriot is a 2026 Indian Malayalam-language spy action thriller film written, co-edited, and directed by Mahesh Narayanan. It was produced by Anto Joseph and K. G. Anil Kumar. The film stars an ensemble cast including Mammootty, Mohanlal, Fahadh Faasil, Kunchacko Boban, Nayanthara, Revathi, Darshana Rajendran, and Rajiv Menon. The soundtrack was composed by Sushin Shyam.

Patriot was released worldwide on 1 May 2026 and received mixed reviews from critics. Despite being the fifth highest grossing Malayalam-language film of 2026, the film was a box office bomb.

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Periscope is a military-grade spyware secretly bought by the Indian government and used against citizens for surveillance and blackmail. Home Minister Nalini Ramakrishnan confronts Defense Minister J.P. Sundaram and threatens to expose the illegal use of Periscope after he uses it for a civilian case against him. Before undergoing surgery, Nalini secretly meets Dr. Daniel James, a Defence Research Wing scientist who helped authorise Periscope, and reveals that Sundaram plans to transfer the spyware's control to his son Shakthi's IT company, Shakthi Solutions. She asks Daniel to retrieve the complete list of targeted citizens.

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“Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.”
— Lord Acton, "Nationality", The Home and Foreign Review (July 1862).
“The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers.
“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
— Mark Twain, in Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935), p. 394.
“That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.”
— Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands, Inch Kenneth.
“Put none but Americans on guard tonight.”
— Attributed to George Washington. The only basis for this order seems to be found in Washington's circular letter to regimental commanders, dated April 30, 1777, regarding recruits for his body guard. "You will therefore send me none but natives." A few months before, Thomas Hickey, a deserter from the British army, had tried to poison Washington, had been convicted and hanged.
“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”
— H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, chapter 30, p. 616 (1949).

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