Oridathoru Phayalvaan
| Oridathoru Phayalvaan | |
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| Directed by | P. Padmarajan |
| Written by | P. Padmarajan |
| Produced by | R. Suresh |
| Starring | Rashid Nedumudi Venu Jayanthi |
| Cinematography | Vipindas |
| Edited by | P. Padmarajan |
| Music by | Johnson |
Production company | Thundathil Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Oridathoru Phayalvaan (transl. There lived a wrestler) is a 1981 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written, edited and directed by P. Padmarajan. The film is a folk parable about the success and failure in the life of a gatta gusthi wrestler in Kerala. It stars Rashid, Nedumudi Venu and Jayanthi.[1]
The film won the first International award for a Malayalam movie, by winning two prestigious awards - (i) for the 'Best Film'[2] and (ii) for the 'Best Screenplay' [2] at the "27th Asian Film Festival - 1982"[3] held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, also won The Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, 1981[4].The film was included in the Indian Panorama section of the Filmotsav'82 held in Calcutta, 1982. It represented India in the competitive section at the Nantes Three Continents Festival-1983[5] in France (22nd to 29th November 1983). It has also been telecasted in the National Network programme of Malaysian Televisions.
Plot
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Patronized by a village tailor, a gatta gusthi wrestler becomes a local hero when he defeats all his opponents and claims the prettiest woman as his wife. As a story within a story it also portrays how the tailor makes a profit from the illiterate wrestler. He marries a girl, only for it to be revealed later that he has another wife and is not interested in her more than a trophy. He abandons his wife and the village when his wife falls for other men in his absence and she acknowledges that she does not love him any more. He leaves her his signature drawing of a conch shell. A frog gigging neighbour youth is entrapped by the girl's mother to marry her conceived daughter. It is way more than that, it is about an illiterate man thinking of his craft as being more than money.
Cast
[edit]- Rashid as A Gatta gusthi phayalvaan (wrestler)
- Nedumudi Venu as Shivanpillai (Mesthiri)
- Jayanthi as Chakkara, the woman courted by the wrestler
- K. G. Devakiyamma as Chakkara's mother
- Ashokan as Kannan
- M Jayagopal as Job
- Kariyachan
- Krishnankutty Nair as Veloonju (Kannan's father)
- Dhanya
- Mavelikkara Ramachandran
- Said
- Rishikesha Das
- Raju Paakkathu
References
[edit]- ^ Vijayakumar, B. (27 November 2016). "Oridathoru Phayalwan: 1981". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 19 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
- ^ a b ""PAPPETTAN" TO ALL IN THE FILM FIELD". padmarajan.8k.com. Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ^ "p padmarajan". cinemaofmalayalam.net. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ^ Critics, kerala Film. "FILM CRITICS AWARDS COMPLETE LIST FROM 1977 TILL 2012 ഫിലിം ക്രിട്ടിക്സ് അവാര്ഡ് 1977 മുതല് 2012 വരെ സമ്പൂര്ണ പട്ടിക". Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ "Nantes Three Continents Festival (1983)". IMDb. Retrieved 5 November 2024.