| 1 | '''Dasharatham''' |
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| 4 | 1989 154’ col Malayalam |
| 5 | d Sibi Malayil pc Saga Films |
| 6 | st/sc/dial A.K. Lohitadas lyr Ouppachan Vabar |
| 7 | c Venu m Johnson |
| 8 | lp Mohanlal, Rekha, Muralee, Karamana |
| 9 | Janardanan Nair, Sukumari, Nedumudi Venu, |
| 10 | Sukumaran |
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| 13 | The rich bachelor Rajiv Menon (Mohanlal) |
| 14 | resolves to stay single when his mother |
| 15 | deserts his father. However, when a friend |
| 16 | (Venu) brings his family over for the vacation, |
| 17 | Rajiv discovers that he likes the company of |
| 18 | children and asks his friend to let him adopt |
| 19 | one of his. When the friend refuses, Rajiv, |
| 20 | wanting to avoid marriage at all costs, |
| 21 | advertises for a womb that he might artificially |
| 22 | inseminate. Annie (Rekha) agrees to mother a |
| 23 | child, mainly to pay for the medical expenses |
| 24 | of her paralysed sportsman-husband. |
| 25 | However, when the baby is born, she refuses |
| 26 | to hand it over, although her now recovered |
| 27 | and jealous husband insists that she do so. |
| 28 | Annie now has a trilemma as she has to face |
| 29 | her husband’s feelings, her responsibilities to |
| 30 | the child and her contract with Rajiv. |
| 31 | Eventually Rajiv surrenders his rights to the |
| 32 | child. The often witty situations and fine |
| 33 | performances do not compensate for the |
| 34 | oppressive representations of a woman’s |
| 35 | ‘duty’ and ‘instinct’. |
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