Synopsis:
A guide introduces his American acquaintances to the culture of Kerala.

Unni.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/59A6D4EADB01929/Unni.mkv

Language(s):English
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The post Govindan Aravindan – Unni (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
The film interprets a story from the Uttara Kanda of the epic poem Ramayana, where Rama sends his wife, Sita, to the jungle to satisfy his subjects. Sita is never actually seen in the film, but her virtual presence is compellingly evoked in the moods of the forest and the elements. The film retells the epic from a feminist perspective, and is about the tragedy of power and the sacrifices that adherence to dharma demands, including abandoning a chaste wife.

2.07GB | 1h 26m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/4F30AFB88AC92B7/Kanchana_Seeta_(1977)_–_Govindan_Aravindan.mkv

Language:Malayalam
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

The post Govindan Aravindan – Kanchana Sita AKA Golden Sita (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Aravindan’s finest b&w film chronicles three days with a circus in a small town in Kerala. A series of high-angle shots, as the circus drives into its new location, introduce us to the village. Several sequences use a remarkable quasi-documentary effect combined with minutely choreographed action e.g. the sunset as the manager (Gopi) directs the raising of the big top. The episodic film tells of a soldier who befriends the circus strong man in a toddy bar and shows how the bizarre characters from the circus including the dwarf merge with the local populace. Much of the imagery is genuinely poetic, accompanied by some remarkable b&w work by Shaji, sustained by a narrative that consistently replaces conventional storytelling with a sense of the cultural geography of the village. The film’s documentary style, including direct address to camera, is in sharp contrast with Aravindan’s previous feature, Kanchana Seeta (1977), also shot by Shaji, although the same reverence for nature animates both works.

Thambu won Aravindan the National and State film awards for the best director.

2.36GB | 2h 10mn | 770×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/A7722565CCC8D00/Thampu.1978.576p.AC3.X264_-_Bichienator.mkv

Language(s):Malayalam
Subtitles:English

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After Kanchana Seeta (1977), the mythical dimension of Aravindan’s cinema acquires a quasi-real, quasi-mythical character in Esthappan (1980). Esthappan is a mysterious figure, allegedly immortal, in a Christian fishing village in Kerala. An enigmatic figure defying spatiotemporality, like many others in Aravindan’s films, Esthappan resides at the periphery of society. Although a more earthly version of Kummatty (the subject of Aravindan’s previous film), all manner of virtues and magical powers are ascribed to the Christ-like worker of miracles (including printing his own money and drinking whisky without getting drunk). The director says it was made as a rejoinder to the criticism levelled against him and his scenarist Panicker for the emphasis on folk ritual in their theatre. An extra dimension is given to the central character, adapted from stories about religious mystics of all stripes, by casting Kakkanadan, a Malayalam tantric-modernist painter, in the role. However, contrary to the director’s stated intention to sympathetically explore religious mysticism, the film can be seen as celebrating confusion, jumbling together religious iconography, pop music, tourism, garish calendar-art colours and artistic creativity. This cultural levelling out is further heightened by more than one version of Esthappan’s activities, each bidding for plausibility but also undercutting whatever conviction the plot might have. The fragmented narrative helps to convey a critique of the conventions of psychological realism prevalent in ‘quality’ cinema by refusing to present an individual as a complex but ultimately coherent and knowable character. However, by also refusing to show the individual as a historically formed figure, an option chosen by Ghatak, Shahani and Abraham, Aravindan ends up relativising his characters completely, dissolving them either into creatures of gossip, as in the film, or into the timeless and eternally unknowable flow of nature.

The film ends with a mythical dance play embodying the essence of Esthappan, which Ashish Rajadhyaksha identifies as Chavittu Natakam, a form derived from Portuguese passion plays which arrived on Indian shores in the 16th Century with the arrival of Portuguese missionaries in Kerala.

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“He was a very ordinary man. You understand Esthappan only through the stories people relate about him. There are people who tell one story in many different ways. In the film there is one person giving two stories of the same event. At this rate we don’t know what is real and what is mythical. The issue here is which of the stories about Esthappan is right. Perhaps all of them are right, perhaps all are wrong.” – G. Aravindan

3.42GB | 1 h 33 min | 960×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7910CB33F202588/Esthappan.aka.Stephen.1980.720p.AC3.x264-aroonav.mkv

Language:Malayalam
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Govindan Aravindan – Esthappan AKA Stephen (1980) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Chidambaram (Malayalam) is a 1985 Malayalam film written, directed and produced by G. Aravindan. It is the film adaptation of a short story by C. V. Sreeraman.The film explores various aspects of relations between men and women through the lives of three people living in a cattle farm. Themes of guilt and redemption are also dealt with. Bharath Gopi, Smita Patil, Sreenivasan and Mohan Das play the lead roles. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and five Kerala State Film Awards including Best Film and Best Direction.

Chidambaram (1985) -- Govindan Aravindan.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/47FB2A1AE4F5BD0/Chidambaram_(1985)_–_Govindan_Aravindan.mkv

Language(s):Malayalam
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Set in a remote part of Travancore-Cochin, Oridathu tells the story of a village where electricity arrives for the first time. The villagers find this modern innovation as a threat to their natural way of life, accustomed to more earthy resources of energy. The film depicts the narrow mindedness and hypocrisies of village lives with humour. The film reaches a conclusion that life is better without electricity and also condemns cinema as a legitimate means of expression.

Oridathu.AKA.And.Then.There.Was.a.Village.1987.SD.HOT.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 47 min
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Language(s):Malayalam
Subtitles:English

The post Govindan Aravindan – Oridathu AKA And Then There Was a Village (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Kummatty is adapted from a Central Kerala folk tale about a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty. Kummatty travels from place to place and entertain children with dancing, singing and performing magic. At one such performance at a village, Kummatty turns a group of children into animals. But one boy, who was changed into a dog, is chased away and misses the moment Kummatty changed the children back to their human form. The dog-boy has to wait a year until Kummatty returns to the village to get back his human form. Aravindan claimed Kummatty to be his personal favourite film. Kummatty won the State award for best children’s film.

The.Bogeyman.1979.CC.720p.BluRay.FLAC.x264-ZiGZAG.mkv

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Language(s):Malayalam
Subtitles:English

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