Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Vidheyan

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Jun 29, 2012, 11:05:45 AM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Vidheyan'''
+
+
+The Servile
+1993 112’ col Malayalam/Kannada
+d/s Adoor Gopalakrishnan pc General Pics
+p Ravi st Paul Zakaria’s novelette Bhaskar
+Pattelar Ente Jeevitham [Bhaskar Pattelar and
+My Life] c Ravi Varma m Vijayabhaskar
+lp Mammootty, M.R. Gopakumar, Tanvi Azmi,
+Savita Anand, Babu Namboodiri, Ravi Vallathol,
+P.C. Soman, Aliyar, M.K. Gopalakrishnan,
+Krishnankutty Nair
+
+
+Gopalakrishnan’s exploration of the ‘Hegelian’
+master-slave dialectic in a South Karnataka
+setting. Bhaskar Pattelar (Mammootty) is the
+aggressive, tyrannical, hard-drinking village
+landlord whose will is law, while Thomma
+(Gopakumar), a Christian migrant labourer
+from Kerala, is his timid and fearful but always
+loyal slave. Thomma resents the master’s
+control, but is always there when required,
+whether it is to help murder Bhaskar Pattelar’s
+kindly wife, Saroja, or to make his own wife,
+Omana, sexually available to the master or to
+dynamite the sacred fish in the temple pond,
+the temple being the only effective site of
+resistance to the landlord’s tyranny. Thomma is
+unwilling to join the other villagers’ plot to kill
+the tyrant, but exults in freedom when Pattelar
+is finally shot dead. The author of the original
+story objected to the film’s interpretation of his
+work, renewing an old controversy about filmic
+adaptations of literary works.
+
+[[Film]]