Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Kazhakam

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Jul 5, 2012, 8:02:12 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Kazhakam'''
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+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]]