Sukrutham

1994 148’ col/scope Malayalam d Harikumar pc Chandrakanth Films p M.M. Ramachandran s M.T. Vasudevan Nair lyr O.N.V. Kurup c Venu m Bombay Ravi lp Mammootty, Gauthami, Manoj K. Jayan, Shanthi Krishna, Narendra Prasad

Mammootty melodrama recalling the 70s ‘cancer-movies’. He plays the terminally ill journalist Rajasekhar, who returns to his village to die, enjoining his young wife (Gauthami) to remarry. However, he is miraculously cured by a new kind of ‘wholistic’ therapy and has to contend with his wife’s growing friendship with his best friend, Rajendran (Jayan). His family in the village is also dismayed by his recovery and, in the end, he kills himself.

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