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{{Infobox film
| name = Thampu
| image = Thampu poster.jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = Poster
| director = [[G. Aravindan]]
| producer = [[K. Ravindran Nair]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=C. S. Venkiteswaran |date=19 June 2009 |title=The alchemist of cinema |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/06/19/stories/2009061951190200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623155746/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/06/19/stories/2009061951190200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 June 2009 |access-date=11 April 2011}}</ref>
| writer = G. Aravindan
| starring = [[Bharath Gopi]]<br />[[Nedumudi Venu]]<br />V. K. Sriraman<br />[[Jalaja]]<br />Artistes of the Great Chitra Circus
| music = [[M. G. Radhakrishnan]]
| cinematography = [[Shaji N. Karun]]
| editing =
| studio = General Pictures
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1978|9|1|df=y}}
| runtime = 130 minutes
| country = India
| language = Malayalam
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Thampu''''' ({{trans|The Circus Tent}}) is a 1978 [[Malayalam]]-language film written and directed by [[G. Aravindan]]. [[Bharath Gopi]], [[Nedumudi Venu]], V. K. Sriraman, [[Jalaja]] the artistes of the Great Chitra Circus form the cast. The film deals with the roving street circus of Kerala. It is shot in black and white in a direct documentary mode.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aravindan's profile |url=http://www.chaosmag.in/aravindan.html |publisher=India Film database |access-date=11 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Sashi Kumar |date=2–15 January 2010 |title=Aravindan's art |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2701/stories/19890610160.htm |magazine=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |access-date=11 April 2011}}</ref>

==Plot==
Besides a long glittering river some men raise a pole. A tent balloons up. Where there was wide sand and the sound of water lapping, there is now a truck, chairs, hoops, stools, ropes, goats, a lioness, a pair of fat girls, some bicycles, and an old man with a philosopher's dignity, putting on white paste.

Across a dirt road, the circus truck comes to a village. The tent goes up. Schoolboys run to the tent. Village women come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop across a tightrope. A lion leaps from the edge of one stool - across darkness - on to another stool. A gap-toothed old woman gazes at a goat on a tight rope; her eyes are wide with curiosity.

For three days the circus makes small ripples in the life of this village. Municipal permits are required. At a toddy shop, a soldier befriends the circus strongman; a pump attendant sits on a rock each day watching a village girl bathe and dry her hair. The dwarf brings back to the circus a watermelon larger than his head.

In the film's three days, we, the viewers, learn the geography of the village: the banyan tree with leaves like transparent film, the shining water, the light on the sand at sunset. When the circus leaves the village, it leaves us. The narrative says: The circus comes and leaves; life goes on.

==Cast==
*[[Nedumudi Venu]]
*[[Jalaja]]
*[[V. K. Sreeraman]]
*[[Bharath Gopi]]

==Soundtrack==
The music was composed by [[M. G. Radhakrishnan]] and the lyrics were written by [[Kavalam Narayana Panicker]].
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! No. !! Song !! Singers !! Lyrics !! Length (m:ss)
|-
| 1 || "Kaanakappennu" || Usha Ravi || [[Kavalam Narayana Panicker]] ||
|-
| 2 || "Kaanakappennu" (No BGM) || Usha Ravi || Kavalam Narayana Panicker ||
|-
| 3 || "Oru Yamunaanadi" || Usha Ravi || Kavalam Narayana Panicker ||
|-
| 4 || "Sreepaalkkadalil" || [[M. G. Radhakrishnan]], Kavalam Sreekumar || Kavalam Narayana Panicker ||
|}

==Major awards==
* [[National Film Award for Best Direction]] {{ndash}} G. Aravindan
* [[National Film Award for Best Cinematography]] {{ndash}} [[Shaji N. Karun]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam]]
* [[Kerala State Film Award for Best Director|Kerala State Film Award for Best Direction]]
* [[Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Film]]

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0078381}}
* [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/culture-cauldron/silence-of-frames-re-visiting-thampu/articleshow/3743104.cms? Revisiting ''Thampu''] - ''[[The Economic Times]]''

{{G. Aravindan}}
{{National Film Award Best Feature Film Malayalam}}

[[Category:1970s Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films directed by G. Aravindan]]
[[Category:Circus films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Kollam]]
[[Category:Films whose director won the Best Director National Film Award]]
[[Category:Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography National Film Award]]
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Best Malayalam Feature Film National Film Award winners]]

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