| | 4 | aka Fallen Flower 1982 133’ col Malayalam d/sc Ambili p Surya Prakash pc Mithra Film Makers st Ravi Krishnan lyr Srikumaran Thampi, Mullaneshari c Bipin Mohan m Vaidyanathan, Anantha Padmanabhan lp Nedumudi Venu, Shankar Mohan, Uma, Babu Namboodiri, Seeta, Sukumari |
| | 7 | Ambili was a leading art director when he turned director with this film about a young musician who falls in love with Sumangala, the daughter of an impoverished Brahmin in a village of the Namboodiri community. Obeying her father, the young woman marries a mentally retarded member of her own community. The drama is further heightened by first equating Sumangala with the mystificatory folk rituals the musician sets out to discover, and then by the book of poems in which he expresses her condition. The lovers remain separated, with dire consequences, especially for the woman. |