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|name = Oridathoru Phayalvaan | |name = Oridathoru Phayalvaan | ||
|image = Oridathoru Phayalwan.jpg | |image = Oridathoru Phayalwan.jpg | ||
|director = [[P. Padmarajan]] | |director = [[P. Padmarajan]] | ||
|writer = P. Padmarajan | |writer = P. Padmarajan | ||
|starring = Rashid<br/>[[Nedumudi Venu]]<br/>[[Jayamala|Jayanthi]] | |starring = Rashid<br/>[[Nedumudi Venu]]<br/>[[Jayamala|Jayanthi]] | ||
|producer = [[R Suresh]] | |producer = [[R. Suresh]] | ||
|music = [[Johnson (composer)|Johnson]] | |music = [[Johnson (composer)|Johnson]] | ||
|cinematography = [[Vipindas]] | |cinematography = [[Vipindas]] | ||
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'''''Oridathoru Phayalvaan''''' ({{ | '''''Oridathoru Phayalvaan''''' ({{trans|There lived a wrestler}}) is a 1981 Indian [[Malayalam]]-language drama film written, edited and directed by [[P. Padmarajan]]. The film is a folk parable about the success and failure in the life of a [[gatta gusthi]] wrestler in [[Kerala]]. It stars Rashid, [[Nedumudi Venu]] and [[Jayamala|Jayanthi]]. | ||
The film won the award for best script at the [[Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://padmarajan.8k.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424194631/http://padmarajan.8k.com/ |archive-date=24 April 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a gold medal at the [[Asian Film Festival of Dallas|Asian Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/padmarajan.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116053042/http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/padmarajan.html |archive-date=16 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
==Plot== | ==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. | {{more plot|date=August 2021}} | ||
Patronized by a village tailor, a [[gatta gusthi]] 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. Nah, it's way more than that, it's about a illiterate man thinking of his craft as being more than money. | |||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
* Rashid as | * Rashid as A [[Gatta gusthi]] ''phayalvaan'' (wrestler) | ||
* [[Nedumudi Venu]] as Shivanpillai (Mesthiri) | * [[Nedumudi Venu]] as Shivanpillai (Mesthiri) | ||
* [[Jayamala|Jayanthi]] as Chakkara, the woman courted by the wrestler | * [[Jayamala|Jayanthi]] as Chakkara, the woman courted by the wrestler | ||
Revision as of 02:14, 22 October 2021
| Oridathoru Phayalvaan | |
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| Directed by | P. Padmarajan |
| Produced by | R. Suresh |
| Written by | P. Padmarajan |
| Starring | Rashid Nedumudi Venu Jayanthi |
| Music by | Johnson |
| Cinematography | Vipindas |
| Edited by | P. Padmarajan |
Production company | Thundathil Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Oridathoru Phayalvaan (transl. There lived a wrestler) is a 1981 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written, edited and directed by P. Padmarajan. The film is a folk parable about the success and failure in the life of a gatta gusthi wrestler in Kerala. It stars Rashid, Nedumudi Venu and Jayanthi.
The film 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
 | This article needs an improved plot summary. (August 2021) |
Patronized by a village tailor, a gatta gusthi 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. Nah, it's way more than that, it's about a illiterate man thinking of his craft as being more than money.
Cast
- Rashid as A Gatta gusthi 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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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