'''Chukkan'''


1994 158’ col Malayalam
d/sc Thampi Kannamthanam pc Juliya Prod.
st/dial Babu Pallassery lyr O.N.V. Kurup c Ravi
K. Chandran m S.P. Venkatesh
lp Suresh Gopi, Gauthami, Jagathi Srikumar,
Soman, Rajan P. Dev, Thilakan, Narendra
Prasad


When the conscientious old worker (Thilakan)
is sacked by the factory owner, the worker’s
Marxist son Gaurishankar (Gopi) changes his
tactics for transforming society. Teaming up
with Gayathri (Gauthami), the daughter of a
once-famous Namboodiri writer, and
Sreeraman (Jagathy), a loyal but minor political
fellow traveller, the trio join a ruling political
nexus of unscrupulous factory-owners,
politicians and police chiefs, undermining and
ruining them ‘from within’. The film’s
aggressive advocacy of consumerism, featuring
flashy clothes, cars and guns sometimes
unintentionally substantiates its ‘end-justifiesthe-
means’ message. The camerawork, often
using spectacular noir effects, and Gopi’s
performance, dominate.

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