Director: T.V. Chandran; Writer: T.V. Chandran; Producer: Salim Karassery; Cinematographer: Venu; Editor: Venugopal; Cast: Mammootty, Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, Srinivasan, Priyambada Ray, Nitin
Duration: 01:26:12; Aspect Ratio: 1.722:1; Hue: 23.640; Saturation: 0.084; Lightness: 0.305; Volume: 0.295; Cuts per Minute: 10.822
Summary: Chandran’s follow-up to the hit Ponthan
Mada (1993) addresses a small community in
rural Kerala when the first Communist
government was dismissed in 1959 by Nehru’s
Central government after two years in power.
Told through the eyes of a small boy, Jayan
(Nitin), the film contrasts his relationship with
the larger-than-life Communist supporter Bhasi
(Mammootty) to that with his tyrannical,
Congress-supporting father (Venu). A second
father-figure is provided by the mad scientist
Thakaran (Gopi) who promises the end of the
world. The dismissal of the government and
Bhasi’s arrest coincides with Thakaran’s death,
as well as with Jayan’s own symbolic revenge
against his father when he throws a bowl of
curry in the patriarch’s face.
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