Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Sammohanam

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Jul 3, 2012, 5:13:36 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Sammohanam'''
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+
+1994 106’ col Malayalam
+d/p C.P. Padmakumar pc Cine Valley
+sc Balakrishnan Mangad c M.R.Radhakrishnan
+m Ilaiyaraja
+lp Archana, Murali, Nedumudi Venu, Sarath
+Das, Radhakrishnan, K.P.A.C. Lalitha, Kukku
+Parameshwaran, Janu, Kunjani
+
+
+Mobilising figures and themes from rural Kerala
+folk forms, especially theyyam, the story set in
+remote North Kerala centers on a young
+woman, Pennu (‘the girl’), whose sensuality
+disturbs and destroys the static tranquillity of a
+village inhabited by character types familiar
+from village stories and folkloric tales,
+incarnating an array of vices and virtues: the
+hardworking sugarcane farmer Chandu
+(Murali) and his family, their slightly backward
+helper Ambu (Das), Chindan (Radhakrishnan)
+who operates a sugar mill and his sister
+Kunjunni (Parameshwaran), some local drunks,
+the old Karuvan allegedly possessing magical
+powers, and the trader Ummini who travels to
+the city and back, providing the village’s link
+with the outside world, and a consummate
+storyteller. Ummini and Pennu eventually form
+a couple, but the turmoil she caused among the
+locals results in Chindan mistakenly knifing
+Ambu, the symbol of rural innocence, and
+drowning himself. Pennu is forced to leave the
+village in the end, having dislocated it with her
+sexuality.
+
+[[Film]]