Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Marattam

Timestamp:

Jul 29, 2012, 6:30:35 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Trupti

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Marattam

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+'''Marattam'''
+
+
+aka Masquerade aka Faces and Masks
+1988 90’ col Malayalam
+d G. Aravindan pc Doordarshan
+s/lyr Kavalam Narayana Panicker based on his
+own play c Shaji N. Karun
+lp Sadanandan Krishnamurthy, Kalamdalam
+Keshavan, Urmila Unni, Krishnankutty Nair
+
+
+Panicker’s one-act play deals with the relation
+of identification between an actor and his or
+her role. Aravindan put the stress on the
+relations between the viewer and the actor/role
+dualities. The action takes place on the eve of
+the last act of the Kathakali piece
+Keechakavadham (The Killing of Keechaka).
+The events surrounding the performance
+uncannily echo events in the play. One
+character even claims to have killed the lead
+actor of the play because he detested the
+character the man portrayed. However, the
+three different accounts that are presented of
+the same plot are never resolved or reconciled
+with each other. Each version is accompanied
+by a different style of folk-music: the tune and
+rhythm of southern Kerala’s thampuran pattu,
+the pulluvan pattu and the ayappan pattu. The
+performers were drawn from the theatre and
+from Kathakali. In southern India, with its
+plethora of politicians using their film images
+to acquire inordinate wealth and power,
+Aravindan’s TV film bears on an eminently
+sensitive political as well as aesthetic issue.
+
+[[Film]]