Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Anantaram

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Jul 17, 2012, 8:16:58 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Anantaram

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+'''Anantaram'''
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+
+aka Monologue
+1987 125’ col Malayalam
+d/s Adoor Gopalakrishnan
+p K. Ravindranathan Nair pc General Pics c Ravi
+Varma m M.B. Srinivasan
+lp Ashokan, Mammootty, Shobhana, Balan K.
+Nair, Bahadur, Vempayan, Sooraj, Sudheesh,
+Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Chandran Nair
+
+
+Gopalakrishnan’s experiment with subjective
+storytelling. The film centres on a young man
+Ajayan (Ashokan) who narrates two stories
+about himself in the first person. He was
+abandoned by his mother, raised by a doctor,
+and proved himself a consistent misfit. Much of
+his fantasy, into which the ‘reality’ of his
+second story merges, revolves around the
+figure of his foster-brother’s (Mammootty) wife
+(Shobhana). The film marks a major shift from
+the director’s previous Mukha Mukham
+(1984) which, despite its critical depiction of
+politics, retained Gopalakrishnan’s
+commitment to developing a tradition of Kerala
+melodrama. Anantaram is much more cynical,
+descending into a subjectivity bordering on the
+paranoid. Gopalakrishnan says that the film
+attempts to ‘relate an experience’, nothing
+more, of a ‘state of intense despair and angst’.
+
+[[Film]]