Oridathoru Phayalvaan
| Oridathoru Phayalvaan (There Lived a Wrestler) | |
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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 (Template:Lang-en) is a 1981 Malayalam film written, edited and directed by P. Padmarajan. The film is a folk parable about the success and failure in the life of a wrestler. It stars Rashid, Nedumudi Venu and Jayanthi in the lead roles.It Shows the life of the wrestler in Kerala's background.It is an experimental work of Padmarajan's craft.
It won the award for Best Script at the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival,[1] and a gold medal at the Asian Film Festival.[2]
Plot
Patronized by a village tailor, a 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 isn't 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 doesn't love him anymore. He leaves her his signature drawing of a conch shell. A frog gigging neighbor youth is entrapped by the girl's mother to marry her conceived daughter.
Cast
- Rashid as 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
- Jayadevan as Job
- Kariyachan
- Krishnankutty Nair as Veloonju (Kannan's father)
- Dhanya
- Mavelikkara Ramachandran
- Said
- Rishikesha Das
- Raju Paakkathu
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
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