Director: Harikumar; Writer: N. Mohanan, Harikumar; Producer: D. Chandrasenan Nair; Cinematographer: K.G. Jayan; Editor: Ajith; Cast: Sreeja Chandran, Master Vignesh
Duration: 01:04:35; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 9.400; Saturation: 0.121; Lightness: 0.270; Volume: 0.181; Cuts per Minute: 8.733
Summary: A winner of many awards, including the Kerala State Government award for the best children's film, it was screened in the Asian Panorama of the 13th International Children's Film festival held at Hyderabad recently. The film narrates the story of how Balu, a speech-impaired young boy of seven, undergoes a great transformation, leaving behind a miserable past when he gets love and care. The boy, whose mother died after his birth, is brought up by his grandparents in a typical middle class environment of rural Kerala and predictably, he is ignored and shunned by society. Impulsive, moody and vulnerable, the boy is prone to belligerence and fits of depression. In his incommunicable world of silence, made the more sordid by isolation and discrimination, he find himself the butt of everybody's abuse and insult. Balu's character has assumed its angularities and oddities as he has been consistently deprived of the love and care of everybody, including his mother. However, when a young teacher, Radha, enters his life, his life takes a turn for the better. With care and warmth, she becomes a guiding spirit and infuses in him a certain sense of purpose, thus bringing about a definite break with the past.
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