Director: T. Hariharan; Writer: M.T. Vasudevan Nair, M.T. Vasudevan Nair; Producer: G.P. Vijay Kumar, M.G. Gopinath, G.P. Vijay Kumar, M.G. Gopinath; Cinematographer: Shaji N. Karun, Shaji N. Karun; Editor: M.S. Mani; Cast: Geetha, Mohanlal, Nadia Moidu, Thilakan As in, Geetha, Mohanlal, Nadia Moidu, Thilakan
Duration: 01:57:34; Aspect Ratio: 1.720:1; Hue: 338.934; Saturation: 0.063; Lightness: 0.255; Volume: 0.180; Cuts per Minute: 11.345
Summary: As in the romantic socialist realism of
Meenamasathile Sooryan (1985), this filmextols the virtues
of radical political activists but, contrary to Rajendran’s film, Hariharan
exploits the unpleasant aspects of
revolutionary violence. The central figure is
Indira (Geetha), imprisoned for murder and on
hunger strike. Allowed to visit her dying
mother, a former activist in the Independence
struggle, on a two-week pass, she encounters
unmitigated hostility from some members of
her family although her old mother welcomes
her warmly. Persecuted by the villagers as well
as by the police, Indira eventually turns to a
journalist, Rashid (Mohanlal), to unburden
herself, recounting the circumstances of her
crime. In the politically turbulent 60s in Kerala,
she had been a welfare officer who had led a
group which hacked to death a particularly
vicious landowner. Later, when she is released,
she shoots the husband of her best friend for
participating in a brutal gang rape of a servant
girl. Then she calmly awaits being imprisoned
again. The film was a commercial hit.
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