Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Devasuram

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Jun 28, 2012, 8:56:51 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Devasuram'''
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+1993 187’ col/scope Malayalam
+d I.V. Sasi pc Anugraha Cine Arts
+p V.B.K. Menon s Renjith lyr Girish Puthencheri
+c V. Jayaram m M.G. Radhakrishnan
+lp Mohanlal, Revathi, Innocent, Nedumudi
+Venu, Chitra, Napoleon
+
+
+A film about a ‘good’ villain exemplifying and
+celebrating contemporary Hindu chauvinist
+brutalism. Mangalassery Neelakandan
+(Mohanlal) is a drunk, a womaniser and the
+wealthy boss of a band of thugs available for
+disrupting public events. However, he is
+presented as essentially decent, donating
+money to a local temple and patronising
+classical music. His ‘weaknesses’ are not his
+fault but the unfortunate consequences of
+‘modern times’ and the regrettable decaying of
+feudalism. Halfway through the film, he is
+paralysed following some unusually violent
+scenes, but nursed to recovery by a Bharat
+Natyam dancer, Bhanu (Revathi), whose career
+he had ruined earlier. Her action demonstrates
+the redemptive powers of tradition and the
+hero can now do the right thing in the film’s
+climax: in an orgy of violence at a temple
+festival, the restored hero is able to reassert his
+righteous manhood by battering his rivals into
+submission.
+
+[[Film]]