| 1 | '''Purushartham''' |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | aka Purge |
| 5 | 1987 111’ col Malayalam |
| 6 | d/sc/dial K.R. Mohanan p P.T.K. Mohammed |
| 7 | st C.V. Sriraman’s Irikkapindam c Madhu |
| 8 | Ambat m M.B. Srinivasan |
| 9 | lp Sujata Mehta, Adoor Bhasi, Madampu |
| 10 | Kunjukuttan, Jebin George, Dr Rama, Rana |
| 11 | Muttalali, Bhargaviyamma, Baby Nandita |
| 12 | |
| 13 | |
| 14 | After his directorial debut with Ashwathama |
| 15 | (1978), Mohanan had to wait almost a decade |
| 16 | for his 2nd feature to be finished. It tells of an |
| 17 | upper-class widow, Bhadra Vasudev (Mehta), |
| 18 | who, with her son (George), returns to her |
| 19 | dead husband’s village to perform the ritual |
| 20 | that will free her from the turbulent corpse that |
| 21 | seems to persecute her and whose death she |
| 22 | may have caused. The husband was an urban |
| 23 | middle-class executive. The story unfolds from |
| 24 | her son Vineet’s point-of-view as he becomes |
| 25 | progressively estranged from his mother, |
| 26 | ending up throwing sacrificial rice balls at her |
| 27 | and her new friend Ninan (Muttalali). The title |
| 28 | refers to the four purusharthas, the goals of |
| 29 | mankind according to Hindu ethical |
| 30 | philosophy. |
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| 32 | [[Film]] |