fiction.wikisort.org - Movie

Search / Calendar

Vidheyan (English: The Servile) is a 1994 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed and written by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It is a cinematic adaptation of the novella Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia. The film explores the master-slave relationship in a South Karnataka setting. Mammootty and M. R. Gopakumar plays the lead roles.

Vidheyan
Directed byAdoor Gopalakrishnan
Screenplay byAdoor Gopalakrishnan
Based onBhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Paul Zacharia
Produced byK. Ravindran Nair
Starring
CinematographyMankada Ravi Varma
Edited byM. Mani
Music byVijaya Bhaskar
Release date
  • January 27, 1994 (1994-01-27)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam and Best Actor Award for Mammootty. It also won numerous awards at the Kerala State Film Awards, including the Best Film.[1]


Plot


Thommy, a Christian migrant labourer from Kerala is an obedient slave of his aggressive, tyrannical landlord Bhaskara Pattelar. Thommy obeys all the orders of his master, whether it is to make his own wife sexually available to his master or in killing Pattelar's kindly wife, Saroja. When Pattelar escapes to a jungle, due to his own deeds, Thommy escorts him like a pet. But when Pattelar is killed Thommy exults in freedom.


Cast



Production


The film is a cinematic adaptation of the novel Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia. Zacharia's novella was inspired by a real-life character named Patela Shekhara Gowda alias Shiradi Shekhara. Zacharia happened to hear the stories of Patelar when he was residing near Shiradi village Mangalore in Karnataka.[2] After the release of the film, Adoor had a tiff with Zacharia over the film. Zachariah said Adoor tainted his story with Hindutva.[3]


Awards


Category Winner Citation
Best Actor Mammootty (also for Ponthan Mada) Depiction of the relationship of power and terror at an existential level.
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam Director - Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Producer: - K. Ravindranathan Nair

 For its in-depth handling and complex delineation of the psychological

evolution of two characters, representative of the transformation of terror

into power and its hold over the life of the existentialist outsider.

Category Winner
Best Film Director - Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Producer - K. Ravindran Nair (General Pictures)

Best Director Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Best Actor Mammootty
Best Screenplay Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Best Story Paul Zacharia
Special Jury Award M. R. Gopakumar
Other awards
Award
NETPAC Award at Rotterdam International Film Festival
INTER FILM Prize - Honourable Mention at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
Special Jury Mention, Singapore International Film Festival
NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award, Singapore International Film Festival

References


  1. Menon, Neelima (30 January 2022). "When Mammootty played the tyrant: Revisiting Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Vidheyan". The News Minute.
  2. "പട്ടേലർ എന്നൊരു സത്യം". Malayala Manorama (in Malayalam). 27 March 2011.
  3. Gowri Ramnarayan (24 September – 7 October 2005). "A constant process of discovery". Frontline. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  4. "Kerala State Film Awards: 1993". Kerala State Chalachitra Academy. Archived from the original on 2 October 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2011.




Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2024
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии