: Produced and directed by J.C. Daniel , the "father of Malayalam cinema," this first silent film defied the contemporary trend of mythological stories by focusing on a social theme.
All of it, he realizes, is the same story. The story of a small, stubborn land that refuses to lie about itself. A culture that has made its cinema into a confession box, a court room, a kitchen table, a monsoon gutter, a temple courtyard, and a funeral pyre—all at once. : Produced and directed by J