Director: Priyadarshan; Writer: Priyadarshan; Cinematographer: S. Kumar; Cast: Mohanlal, Karthika, Nedumudi Venu, M.G. Soman
Duration: 02:16:44; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 314.484; Saturation: 0.029; Lightness: 0.243; Volume: 0.210; Cuts per Minute: 12.761
Summary: Priyadarshan’s highly adapted version of Asit
Sen’s Deep Jweley Jai (1959) and Khamoshi
(1969) following also in the wake of Milos
Forman’s successful One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). Mentally deranged hero
Vinu (Mohanlal) is admitted to an asylum,
where he is befriended by one of the doctors
(Venu) who happens to be a childhood buddy.
Heroine Savithri (Karthika), also employed in
the hospital, falls for the hero in the process of
curing him. However, Savithri’s tyrannical
father (Soman), who owns the asylum, cruelly
performs a lobotomy operation on the hero
because he fears for his daughter’s future. Like
all Priyadarshan films, this one too works
extensively with flashbacks, using the various
drastic shock treatments meted out to the hero
as an excuse for some psychedelic musical
effects.
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