Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Oridathu

Timestamp:

Jul 17, 2012, 7:57:51 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Oridathu

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+'''Oridathu'''
+
+
+aka Somewhere aka And There Was a Village
+1986 112’ col Malayalam
+d/s G. Aravindan pc Suryakanti Film Makers
+c Shaji N. Karun
+lp Nedumudi Venu, Srinivasan, Thilakan,
+Vineeth, Krishnankutty Nair, Surendra Babu,
+Kunhandi, Chandran Nair, Soorya, Sitara
+
+
+Set in the 50s in a remote part of Travancore
+Cochin, the story tells of a village, rather like
+the one in Aravindan’s Thampu (1978),
+threatened by electrification. Although the
+absurdities and the small-minded hypocrisies
+of village life are depicted with humour, the
+film produces a strange impression since the
+conclusion it reaches, that life is better without
+electricity, also condemns the very existence of
+cinema as a legitimate means of expression.
+The key to the film can be found in Aravindan’s
+statement that in the small village where he
+was born there was no electricity until he was
+ten years old, and that he felt nostalgic for
+those pre-pubertal times marked by the
+memory of people moving about with torches.
+
+[[Film]]