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Vidheyan
Directed byAdoor Gopalakrishnan
Screenplay byAdoor Gopalakrishnan
Based onBhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum
byPaul Zacharia
Produced byK. Ravindran Nair
Starring
CinematographyMankada Ravi Varma
Edited byM. Mani
Music byVijaya Bhaskar
Release date
  • January 27, 1994(1994-01-27)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Vidheyan(transl. The Servile) is a 1994 IndianMalayalam-languagedrama filmdirected and written byAdoor Gopalakrishnan.It is based on the novellaBhaskara Pattelarum Ente JeevithavumbyPaul Zacharia.The film, starringMammoottyandM. R. Gopakumar,explores the master-slave relationship in aSouth Karnatakasetting.

Vidheyanwon theNational Film Award for Best Feature Film in MalayalamandBest Actor Awardfor Mammootty. It also won numerous awards at theKerala State Film Awards,including the Best Film.[1]

Plot

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Thommy, a migrant labourer from Wayanad, Kerala comes to patellar's town in South Karnataka for survival. Pattellar, the landlord of the town, abuses the newcomer Thommy. After learning from Thommy about her wife, Pattellar rapes Thommy's wife. Pattellar then offers Thommy a job and gift him things. Thommy becomes an obedient servant of Pattellar. Pattellar continues to rape Thommy's wife. Pattellar is a womaniser and have raped several women. On seeing Kuttaparai's daughter, Pattellar, without regard to consequences, rapes her. Another time, Pattellar senselessly beats a wealthy man Yusuf. Pattellar's wife advices the Pattellar to change his ways and be a good man. She was a kind women and treats Thommy with love and affection. Fed up with her advices, Pattellar decides to kill his wife and asks Thommy's help to make it look like accident. But during the attempt, unfortunately, Thommy was injured in gunshot instead of Pattellar's wife. Pattellar thinks about killing Thommy, but his wife make arrangements to take thommy to the hospital. Once recovered, Pattellar takes Thommy to catch fishes from Temple Pond which is a blasphemous act. But returns unsuccessful. Yusuf, Kuttaparai and several prominent members of the town decide to kill Pattellar and ask Thommy's help. Thommy bring Pattellar to his house as per plan. But Pattellar escapes. Pattellar murders his wife and takes Thommy's help to stage it as suicide. Thommy weeps at Pattellar's wife death. But soon Pattellar's brother-in-laws discovers truth of the death of their sister and retaliate. Bruised and battered, Pattellar takes Thommy with him in search of a safe haven. During travel through jungle, Pattellar was killed by Pattellar's brother-in-laws. Even though at first, Thommy weeps for the death of his master Pattellar, then he exults in freedom.

Cast

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Production

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The film is a cinematic adaptation of the novelBhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavumby Malayalam writerPaul Zacharia.[2]Zacharia's novella was inspired by a real-life character named Patela Shekhara Gowda alias Shiradi Shekhara. Zacharia happened to hear the stories of Patelar when he was residing near Shiradi villageMangaloreinKarnataka.[3]After the release of the film, Adoor had a tiff with Zacharia over the film. Zachariah said Adoor tainted his story withHindutva.[4]

Accolades

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Category Winner Citation
Best Actor Mammootty(also forPonthan Mada) Depiction of the relationship of power and terror at an existential level.
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam Director –Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Producer: -K. Ravindranathan Nair

For its in-depth handling and complex delineation of the psychological

evolution of two characters, representative of the transformation of terror

into power and its hold over the life of the existentialist outsider.

Category Winner
Best Film Director –Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Producer –K. Ravindran Nair(General Pictures)

Best Director Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Best Actor Mammootty
Best Screenplay Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Best Story Paul Zacharia
Special Jury Award M. R. Gopakumar
Other awards
Award
NETPAC Award atRotterdam International Film Festival
INTER FILM Prize – Honourable Mention at theMannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
Special Jury Mention,Singapore International Film Festival
NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award,Singapore International Film Festival

References

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  1. ^Menon, Neelima (30 January 2022)."When Mammootty played the tyrant: Revisiting Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Vidheyan".The News Minute.Archivedfrom the original on 3 May 2022.Retrieved3 May2022.
  2. ^Kumar, Pradeep (21 March 1993)."There's no rigidity in my style".Sunday Magazine.Indian Express Limited.p. 6.Retrieved9 March2023.
  3. ^"പട്ടേലർ എന്നൊരു സത്യം".Malayala Manorama(in Malayalam). 27 March 2011.
  4. ^Ramnarayan, Gowri (24 September – 7 October 2005)."A constant process of discovery".Frontline.Archivedfrom the original on 14 May 2014.Retrieved9 April2011.
  5. ^"Kerala State Film Awards: 1993".Kerala State Chalachitra Academy.Archived fromthe originalon 2 October 2010.Retrieved31 January2011.
  6. ^"'Vidheyan' bags six Kerala state awards ".The Indian Express.14 March 1994. p. 11.Retrieved9 March2023.
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