Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Swaham

Timestamp:

Jul 3, 2012, 5:16:39 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Trupti

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Swaham

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+'''Swaham'''
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+
+aka My Own; Destiny
+1994 153’(141’) col/b&w Malayalam
+d/co-sc Shaji N. Karun pc Filmfolk
+p/st/co-sc S. Jayachandran Nair co-sc Raghunath
+Paleri c Hari Nair m Raghavan K., Isaac Thomas
+Kottukkapalli
+lp Venmani Vishnu, Haridas, Aswani,
+Mullenezhi, Sarath, Gopi, Praseetha,
+Rudraprathapan, Gopalakrishnan
+
+
+Stunningly photographed melodrama of a
+family in Thenmala on the border of Kerala and
+Tamil Nadu. When the Brahmin Ramayyar
+(Haridas) dies, his wife (Aswani) has to raise
+their two children and look after the coffee
+shop that constitutes their only income. The
+shop is located near a countryside railway
+station whose manager offers them support.
+They are evicted by their landlord (Gopi) and
+the mother raises money to pay a bribe to get
+her son enlisted in the army. The son dies in a
+demonstration protesting against state
+corruption. A quotation from Kalidasa’s
+Shakuntalam announces the film’s intention to
+offer a new way of narrating a familiar
+Malayalam film plot, which would include all
+the detail that is usually discarded from such
+stories. The images change from colour to b&w
+as the story moves between the past and
+present, arriving at a tragic structure that
+furthers the director’s favoured idiom (cf.
+Piravi, 1988) of characters struggling to come
+to terms with the emptiness left by death.
+
+[[Film]]