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Jun 28, 2012, 5:07:12 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Advaitham'''
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+1991 181’ col Malayalam
+d Priyadarshan pc Grihalakshmi Prod.
+s T. Damodaran lyr Kaithapram c S. Kumar
+m Johnson
+lp Mohanlal, Jayaram, Revathi, Thikkurisi
+Sukumaran Nair, Chitra, Soman, Innocent
+
+
+A Hindu chauvinist film set in contemporary
+Kerala. Shivaprasad (Mohanlal), disowned by
+his Brahmin Namboodiri father, becomes a
+pawn of power-hungry Communists. Having
+committed several violent crimes at their
+behest, he is jailed but ‘rewarded’ when the
+Communists come to power and appoint him
+chairman of a rich temple trust. The hero’s
+‘redemption’ is prepared by presenting his
+efforts at embezzlement - part of his job’s
+privileges - as an attempt to finance the
+recovery of his feudal rights and to restore his
+now-politically sanitised joint family. However,
+opposing him are the honest leader of the
+temple workers, the good administrator
+Lakshmi (Revathi) who is also his estranged
+former lover, and Vasu (Jayaram), a reformed
+ex-accomplice. When the Communists have
+Vasu murdered, Shivaprasad sees the light and
+turns into a saffron-clad sanyasi, soon gaining
+fame as a peace-preaching godman. In this
+role, he is invited to mediate in a religious
+dispute over a mosque (a direct reference to
+the violent attack on the mosque at Ayodhya).
+His honesty now makes him an enemy of all
+the political factions in the dispute, who
+collectively plot to kill him, but he is rescued
+by his now-repentant former girlfriend,
+Lakshmi. Shivaprasad then massacres the
+corrupt politicians and the film ends with him
+addressing Hindu devotees, asking them to
+‘judge’ whether slaughtering one’s opponents
+is wrong. The film also recalls the heroic and,
+in Kerala, controversial figure of the former
+Naxalite Ajitha, who, according to legend
+would kill landlords and policemen leaving her
+bloodied palm print on the wall as a signature.
+
+[[Film]]