Director: Lenin Rajendran; Writer: Lenin Rajendran; Producer: C.G. Bhaskaran; Cinematographer: Shaji N. Karun; Editor: Ravi; Cast: Gopi, Venu Nagavalli, Vijay Menon, Murali, Ravi, Shobhana
Duration: 01:50:58; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 320.279; Saturation: 0.194; Lightness: 0.261; Volume: 0.207; Cuts per Minute: 11.553
Summary: Told in flashback, this is the story of how four
fine young men achieved communist political
consciousness in a peasant rising against a
villainous landlord in 1943 in Kerala. The men,
played by Menon, Murali, Nagavalli and Ravi,
receive the revolutionary word from the
schoolteacher (Gopi) and spread the message
among the ignorant villagers. They end up as
revered heroes condemned to be hanged by
the British for treason. When asked for their
last wish, they all ask to see their beloved
teacher once more. The story was adapted,
without credit, from Niranjana’s epic novel
Chirasmarane (1955). Director Rajendran later
contested two general elections backed by the
Kerala CPI(M), from whose viewpoint he tells
this tale.
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