Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Piravi

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Jul 29, 2012, 6:42:46 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Piravi

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+'''Piravi'''
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+
+aka Birth
+1988 110’ col Malayalam
+d/co-sc Shaji N. Karun pc Filmfolk
+co-sc/st S. Jayachandran Nair co-sc Raghu
+c Sunny Joseph m Mohan Sitara, Aravindan
+lp Premji, Archana, Lakshmiamma,
+C.V. Sriraman, Mullenezhi, Chandran Nair
+
+
+A visually engrossing yet austere directorial
+debut by Kerala’s leading cinematographer.
+The plot is taken from actuality and concerns a
+frail but dogged old man, Chakyar (Premji),
+who obsessively searches for his vanished son,
+Raghu, venturing even into bewildering
+Trivandrum to seek an audience with the
+Home Minister. The man’s daughter learns that
+her brother probably died in police custody
+after being tortured, but she cannot bear to tell
+her father who continues to hope and to
+search. However, the old man’s grip on reality
+is slipping fast and he begins dreaming that his
+son is with him. The story is based on the
+disappearance of Rajan, a Naxalite sympathiser,
+during the Emergency. Rajan’s father later sued
+the Congress-I Government. The film’s force
+comes from its skilful orchestration of time and
+space into fascinating rhythmical patterns
+interacting with land and cityscapes, drawing
+the viewer into the father’s obsessive search in
+everyday, indifferent surroundings. It is also
+highly mystical, and deflects a major real-life
+incident with direct political repercussions into
+a brand of orientalist fatalism.
+
+[[Film]]