Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Kathapurushan

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Jul 3, 2012, 6:48:28 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Kathapurushan'''
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+1995 107’ col Malayalam
+d/sc/co-p Adoor Gopalakrishnan pc Japan
+Broadcasting Corporation NHK, Adoor
+Gopalakrishnan Prod. co-p Tokiuchi Ogawa
+c Ravi Varma m Vijayabhaskar
+lp Vishwanathan, Mini, Aranmula Ponnamma,
+Urmila Unni, Jagannatha Varma, Narendra
+Prasad, Babu Namboodiri, Lalitha, Ravi
+Vallathol, Mukesh, P.C. Soman
+
+
+A dramatisation of Kerala’s history since the
+onset of the Independence struggle, this film
+narrates the life of Kunjunni (Vishwanathan),
+perennially pining for his absent father but
+warmly looked after by the women in his
+family, and especially close to a servant’s
+daughter, Meenakshi (Minni). Uncle Vasu
+(Prasad) is the activist in the family, first as a
+Gandhian independence fighter, then as
+member of the Kerala Communist Party. At
+university, Kunjunni also turns towards the CP
+and witnesses the first-ever democratic election
+of a Communist government in 1959. However,
+the government’s land reform measures
+drastically impoverish his family. Turning to a
+Maoist group and taking part in their naxalite
+insurgent activities including terrorist attacks,
+Kunjunni is eventually arrested and tortured by
+the police until a court confirms his innocence
+and orders his release. The disillusioned
+Kunjunni then establishes a life of quiet
+domesticity with Meenakshi until the wayward
+uncle re-emerges, now dressed in saffron robes
+and claiming to have espoused a life of
+spiritual values, all of which does not prevent
+him from making serious financial claims on
+Kunjunni. The solution arrives when a rich
+parvenu buys Kunjunni’s house. The film
+depicts with finely judged, dramatic and
+occasionally ironic tones the twists and turns in
+Kerala’s recent history and its elaboration of a
+democratic social system.
+Kazhakam
+1995 95’ col Malayalam
+d/co-s M.P. Sukumaran Nair pc Rachana Films
+p T.N. Sukumaran co-s M. Sukumaran
+c Ashwini Kaul m Jerry Amaldev, Kaithapram
+lp Urvashi, Nedumudi Venu, P.C. Soman,
+Valsala Menon, Ravi Vallathol, Kukku
+Parameshwaran, Mullanezhi, Mukundan,
+Master Mohan
+Nair, having worked with Gopalakrishnan,
+returns to the mother-son relationship
+adumbrated in his first feature Aparahnam
+(1990), with this bitterly ironic tale of a
+woman’s religious mania, a variation on the
+theme of Radha and Krishna. The poor villager
+Radha (Urvashi) becomes unbalanced with
+grief when her husband and son die. Going to
+live with her mother (Menon), the two women
+derive some income from pilgrims visiting the
+local temple, an institution representing a
+complex knot of contradictory currents:
+indolence and moral corruption in the shape of
+its guardians (Venu, Mullanezhi) as well as
+traditional ideologies while remaining an
+important conduit for contact with outsiders.
+When the teacher Nandini (Parameshwaran)
+arrives to visit the temple with her young son
+Kannan (Mohan), the distraught Radha latches
+on to the son imagining him to be Krishna.
+When Kannan falls ill and dies, Radha’s
+delusional mania, the only source available to
+her in an impossibly constricted and oppressed
+situation, overwhelms her.
+
+[[Film]]