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Jul 17, 2012, 7:39:46 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Avanazhi'''
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+1986 156’ col/scope Malayalam
+d I.V. Sasi pc Saj Prod. s T. Damodaran
+c V. Jayaram m Shyam
+lp Mammootty, Geetha, Nalini, Seema,
+Captain Raju, Paravoor Bharathan, Thikkurisi
+Sukumaran Nair, Janardhanan, Jagannath
+Varma, Sukumaran, Sattar
+
+
+Sasi’s demented melodrama repeating his
+theme of corruption in Kerala politics (cf.
+Eenadu, 1982; Vartha, 1986), and seminal
+text determining Mammootty’s screen persona.
+He plays the police inspector Balaram, who is
+personally honest but not opposed in principle
+to corruption. Framed for the murder of the
+student Unni, who died in police custody,
+Balaram loses his girlfriend Usha (Nalini) and
+faces the enduring hostility of Unni’s sister
+Radha (Seema). The film’s key villain is the
+businessman and politician Vincent, whose
+partner, the corrupt lawyer Jayachandran,
+happens to be Usha’s new husband.
+Completing the key ensemble is the prostitute
+Seeta (Geetha), who was forced by the bad
+guys into prostitution and now lives with
+Balaram. In a relentless series of brutal
+encounters, personal vendettas merge with
+political rivalries. In the end, the true killer of
+the student turns out to be the politically
+influential murderer Sathyaraj (Captain Raju).
+Balaram hunts him down, and in the process
+becomes responsible for the killing of the
+pregnant Seeta. The most notable aspect of the
+film is its view of corruption as something that
+has seeped into every aspect of Kerala society,
+to a point where even the film is unable to
+restrict its subject-matter. The hero is presented
+throughout as essentially unpleasant, who
+warns Usha not to take up a job as university
+lecturer, and later refuses to acknowledge
+having fathered Seeta’s child. The film’s plot in
+both instances vindicates the hero’s stand (e.g.
+when Usha is attacked by a student) without
+making any effort to render it in any way
+morally palatable. Sasi’s usual alternative is an
+enormous excess of plot, as the complicated
+roles of different characters merge and
+interconnect to the point of vertigo. Like his
+other films, here too there are no neat endings,
+as the hero’s arrest (repeating an enhanced
+version of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry, 1971)
+leaves the futures of most of the characters
+largely unresolved.
+
+[[Film]]