Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Daivathinte Vikrithikal

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Jun 28, 2012, 6:00:25 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Daivathinte Vikrithikal'''''''''
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+1992 108’ col Malayalam
+d/sc Lenin Rajendran pc Souparnika Movie
+Arts st M. Mukundan lyr O.N.V. Kurup
+c Madhu Ambat m Mohan Sitara
+lp Raghuvaran, Srividya, Thilakan, Vineeth,
+Sudheesh, Siddique
+
+
+Based on the writings of noted author
+Mukundan, the film is set near the river
+Mayyazhi (Mahe) in an ex-French colony with
+continuing cultural links to its former colonial
+power. Father Alphonse (Raghuvaran), a
+French-speaking priest, amateur magician and
+alcoholic, decides to stay when Independence
+comes and the colonial functionaries depart on
+the last ship to Paris, much to the despair of his
+Francophile wife Maggie (Srividya). Years later,
+when their son Michael leaves for France in
+search of the ‘good life’, he shatters Maggie’s
+hopes for redemption. Their daughter Elsie
+becomes pregnant by her childhood friend
+(Vineeth), the son of a landlord and former
+Congress Party worker (Thilakan), and
+Alphonse’s only remaining acquaintance. The
+younger son of this landlord quits a potentially
+successful career at University in order to join a
+radical Naxalite group. The original novel
+attempted to investigate the conditions of
+culturally marginalized communities in
+Independent India. Rajendran, who contested
+elections supported by the CPI(M), proposes a
+critique of the ruling Congress Party,
+presenting it as a once-radical movement now
+infested with corruption and challenged by the
+progressive Left. The cinematographer Ambat’s
+work is, as usual, outstanding, especially in its
+creation of claustrophobic spaces.
+
+[[Film]]