Pinneyum
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| Directed by | Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
| Story by | Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
| Produced by | Adoor Gopalakrishnan Baby Mathew Somatheeram |
| Starring | Dileep Kavya Madhavan Akshara kishore Vijayaraghavan Indrans Subodh Bhave Srinda Ashaab Meera Nallur |
| Cinematography | M. J. Radhakrishnan |
| Edited by | B. Ajithkumar |
| Music by | Bijibal |
| Distributed by | Kalasangham Films |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Pinneyum (English : Once Again) is a 2016 Malayalam crime drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Businessman Baby Mathew Somatheeram co-produces the film. The film portrays a lovestory where Dileep and Kavya Madhavan are playing the lead roles.[1] [2] This film loosely adapted from original criminal incident that happened in Kerala during 80's by Sukumara Kurup,a wanted criminal.[3]
Plot
The movie starts with the death of a man Anand Sharma (Subodh Bhave) in a hotel room. Then the movie changes focus to the story of Purushothaman Nair (Dileep). Nair is a B.Com Graduate who has been unemployed for the past 8 years. He lives with his wife Devi (Kavya Madhavan), daughter Revathi (Akshara Kishor), father-in-law Pappu Pillai (Nedumudi Venu) and his sickly brother-in-law Kuttan (Indrans) in Pillai's house. He enjoys reading detective novels when free. While waiting for a job, he finally lands one in the gulf. From then people's attitude towards him changes. He is more respected in his village. He doesn't hesitate helping people who come to him. But greed sets its roots into him. In his greed to make more money he devices a plan to fake his death to get the insurance money. He, along with his father-in-law and Devi's uncle (Vijayaraghavan), decide to place a dead body in his car and burn it to make it seem as though the Nair burned along with the car. But when they couldn't secure a body, they decide to kill a man and use his body. While driving at night, they find a man asking for a lift to the hospital as he was having his first child. Devi's uncle strangles the man to death and all three of them place him in the driver's seat and proceed to burn the car. Everyone (except Devi whom Nair had told the whole plan to) considers Nair dead, while Nair disappears. Soon through forensic reports, it is proved that the man killed in the car was not Nair but some unidentified person. Police arrest Kuttan, Pillai and Devi's Uncle for questioning where Kuttan is thrashed. The other two surrender to the police saying that the man was killed by accident and by the fear of authorities lead them burn his body along with the car. 17 years pass and it is revealed that Kuttan is bed-ridden due to the thrashing, Pillai refuses to see anyone in jail, Devi's uncle passed away in jail while Nair is still missing. One night, a man (Subodh Bhave) comes at Devi's window calling out to her. When he sees that she is frightened, he lays out the truth that he is Nair who had undergone a plastic surgery to escape from the authorities (who now lives under the persona of Anand Sharma). Frightened and not believing him, Devi threatens to call the police which makes him leave. He returns for a few nights where Devi accepts that he is her husband. But, she refuses to come with him to lead a new life claiming he destroyed her and her family's life and doesn't want to see him. He returns the following night and tells her that he will not come into her life again and leaves. The movie ends when it shifts to the present where the police find a suicide note under Sharma's bed in the hotel room in which he had written, "I have one request. Do not go in search of who I am. I, myself, do not know who I am", leaving everyone puzzled.
Cast
- Dileep as Purushothaman Nair
- Subodh Bhave as Purushothaman Nair (after plastic surgery)
- Kavya Madhavan as Devi
- Nedumudi Venu as Pappu Pilla
- Vijayaraghavan
- Akshara Kishor
- Indrans
- K. P. A. C. Lalitha
- Nandhu as Kurup
- Sathi Premji
- Srinda Ashab as Sharada
- Meera Nallur
- Krishnan Balakrishnan
- Arun Benny as Poovarasan Eetrajavum
Production
Adoor Gopalakrishnan announced his next movie after 8 years with Dileep titled as Pinneyum in a press meet on 23 March 2016. The movie started shooting on 11 May 2016 with Sasthamkootta as the main location. Pinneyum was Gopalakrishnan's first digital film.[4]
References
- ^ "Dileep and Kavya will lead in Adoor Gopalakrishnan's romantic drama Pinneyum". Manorama Online.
- ^ http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/pinneyum-for-toronto-fete/article9029196.ece
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.in/meenakshi-shedde/adoor-gopalakrishnans-pinneyum-is-a-mismatch-of-existential-t/
- ^ "Adoor Gopalakrishnan Interview: "I Shoot Every Film Like It Is My First"". Silverscreen.in. 18 August 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
External links
- ^ "Pinneyum Adoor Gopalakrishnan's starts rolling". Film Fever Media. filmfever. 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Dileep and kavya to join hands for new Movie". Film Fever Media. filmfever. 11 May 2016.