Director: K.R. Mohanan; Writer: K.R. Mohanan; Producer: P.T.K. Mohammed; Cinematographer: Madhu Ambat; Editor: Venu; Cast: Sujata Mehta, Adoor Bhasi, Madampu Kunjukuttan, Jebin George, Dr Rama, Rana Muttalali, Bhargaviyamma, Baby Nandita
Summary: After his directorial debut with Ashwathama
(1978), Mohanan had to wait almost a decade
for his 2nd feature to be finished. It tells of an
upper-class widow, Bhadra Vasudev (Mehta),
who, with her son (George), returns to her
dead husband’s village to perform the ritual
that will free her from the turbulent corpse that
seems to persecute her and whose death she
may have caused. The husband was an urban
middle-class executive. The story unfolds from
her son Vineet’s point-of-view as he becomes
progressively estranged from his mother,
ending up throwing sacrificial rice balls at her
and her new friend Ninan (Muttalali). The title
refers to the four purusharthas, the goals of
mankind according to Hindu ethical
philosophy.
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