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{{Infobox film
| name          = Vidheyan
| name          = Vidheyan
| image          =  
| image          = Vidheyan poster.jpg
|caption        = Vidheyan poster
| director      = [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
| director      = [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
| screenplay    = Adoor Gopalakrishnan
| screenplay    = Adoor Gopalakrishnan
| based_on      = ''Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum'' by [[Paul Zacharia]]
| based_on      = {{based on|''Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum''|[[Paul Zacharia]]}}
| starring      = {{Unbulleted_list|[[Mammootty]]|[[M. R. Gopakumar]]|[[Tanvi Azmi]]|Sabitha Anand|Aliyar|[[K. P. A. C. Azeez]]}}
| starring      = {{Unbulleted list|[[Mammootty]]|[[M. R. Gopakumar]]|[[Tanvi Azmi]]|Sabitha Anand|Aliyar|[[K. P. A. C. Azeez]]}}
| producer      = [[K. Ravindran Nair]]
| producer      = [[K. Ravindran Nair]]
| distributor    =  
| distributor    =  
| cinematography = [[Mankada Ravi Varma]]
| cinematography = [[Mankada Ravi Varma]]
| editing        = M. Mani
| editing        = M. Mani
| released      = {{Film date|1994||}}
| music          = [[Vijaya Bhaskar]]
| released      = {{Film date|1994|1|27}}
| runtime        = 112 minutes
| runtime        = 112 minutes
| country        = [[India]]
| country        = India
| language      = [[Malayalam]]
| language      = Malayalam
| music          = [[Vijaya Bhaskar]]
}}
}}


'''''Vidheyan''''' ({{lang-en|The Servile}}) is a [[List of Malayalam films of 1994|1994]] Indian [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam]]-language [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed and written by [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]. It is a cinematic adaptation of the novella ''Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum'' by Malayalam writer [[Paul Zacharia]]. The film explores the master-slave relationship in a [[South Karnataka]] setting.
'''''Vidheyan''''' ({{Translation|The Servile}}) is a 1994 Indian [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam]]-language [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed and written by [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]. It is based on the novella ''Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum'' by [[Paul Zacharia]]. The film, starring [[Mammootty]] and [[M. R. Gopakumar]], explores the master-slave relationship in a [[South Karnataka]] setting.
[[Mammootty]] and [[M. R. Gopakumar]] plays the lead roles.


The film won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam]] and [[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor Award]] for Mammootty. It also won numerous awards at the [[Kerala State Film Awards]], including the Best Film.
''Vidheyan'' won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam]] and [[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor Award]] for Mammootty. It also won numerous awards at the [[Kerala State Film Awards]], including the Best Film.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Menon |first=Neelima |date=30 January 2022 |title=When Mammootty played the tyrant: Revisiting Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Vidheyan |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/when-mammootty-played-tyrant-revisiting-adoor-gopalakrishnans-vidheyan-160384 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503053635/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/when-mammootty-played-tyrant-revisiting-adoor-gopalakrishnans-vidheyan-160384 |archive-date=3 May 2022 |access-date=3 May 2022 |website=The News Minute}}</ref>


==Plot==
== Plot ==
Thommy, a Christian migrant labourer from [[Kerala]] is an obedient slave of his aggressive, tyrannical landlord Bhaskara Pattelar. Thommy obeys all the orders of his master, whether it is to make his own wife sexually available to his master or in killing Pattelar's kindly wife, Saroja. When Pattelar escapes to a jungle, due to his own deeds, Thommy escorts him like a pet. But when Pattelar is killed Thommy exults in freedom. [[Mammootty]] received the [[National Award for Best Actor]] for his performance in this movie and one other movie.
Thommy, a migrant labourer from Wayanad, Kerala, comes to Patellar's town in South Karnataka for survival. Pattellar, the landlord of the town, abuses him. He is a psychopath who loves to rape beautiful women. After learning from Thommy about his wife Omana, Pattellar rapes her that night. He then offers Thommy a job and gifts him things. He becomes an obedient servant of Pattellar, who continues to have sex with Omana every night. On seeing Kuttaparai's newly wedded beautiful daughter, Pattellar, without regard to consequences, kidnaps & rapes her also.  


==Cast==
On one occasion, Pattellar senselessly beats a wealthy man, Yusuf. Pattellar's wife advises him to change his ways and be a good man. She is a kind woman and treats Thommy with love and affection. Fed up with her advice, Pattellar decides to kill his wife and asks for Thommy's help to make it look like an accident. During the attempt, Thommy is injured by a gunshot, instead of Pattellar's wife. He considers killing Thommy, but his wife makes arrangements to take Thommy to the hospital. Once recovered, one night Pattellar again goes to Thommy's house, not to have sex with Omana again but to take Thommy fishing in the temple pond, which is forbidden. They return unsuccessful. Yusuf, Kuttaparai, and several prominent members of the town decide to kill Pattellar and ask for Thommy's help. Thommy brings Pattellar to his house as per plan, but he escapes. He murders his wife and takes Thommy's help to stage it as suicide. Thommy weeps at Pattellar's wife's death. But soon her brothers discover the truth of the death of their sister and retaliate. Bruised and battered, Pattellar takes Thommy with him in search of a safe haven. Fleeing through the jungle, Pattellar is killed by his brothers-in-law. At first, Thommy weeps for his master, Pattellar. He eventually exults in freedom.
* [[Mammootty]] as Bhaskara Patelar
 
== Cast ==
{{Cast listing|* [[Mammootty]] as Bhaskara Pattelar
* [[M. R. Gopakumar]] as Thommy
* [[M. R. Gopakumar]] as Thommy
* [[Tanvi Azmi]] as Bhaskara Patelar's Wife
* [[Tanvi Azmi]] as Saroja, Bhaskara Patelar's Wife
* [[Sabitha Anand]] as Omana
* [[Sabitha Anand]] as Omana
* Aliyar
* Aliyar
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* [[Krishnan Kutty Nair (actor)|Krishnan Kutty Nair]]
* [[Krishnan Kutty Nair (actor)|Krishnan Kutty Nair]]
* [[Naveen D. Padil]]
* [[Naveen D. Padil]]
* Rohidas Kadri}}


==Production==
== Production ==
The film is a cinematic adaptation of the novel ''Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum'' by Malayalam writer [[Paul Zacharia]]. 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 village [[Mangalore]] in [[Karnataka]].<ref>{{cite news|title=പട്ടേലർ എന്നൊരു സത്യം|language=ml|date=March 27, 2011|newspaper=[[Malayala Manorama]]}}</ref> After the release of the film, Adoor had a tiff with Zacharia over the film. Zachariah said Adoor tainted his story with [[Hindutva]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2220/stories/20051007001508200.htm|title=A constant process of discovery|author=Gowri Ramnarayan|magazine=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]|date=September 24 – October 7, 2005|access-date=April 9, 2011}}</ref>
The film is a cinematic adaptation of the novel ''Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum'' by Malayalam writer [[Paul Zacharia]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kumar |first=Pradeep |date=21 March 1993 |title=There's no rigidity in my style |pages=6 |work=Sunday Magazine |publisher=[[Indian Express Limited]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fYllAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kZ4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1629%2C2869947 |access-date=9 March 2023}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 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 village [[Mangalore]] in [[Karnataka]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 27, 2011 |title=പട്ടേലർ എന്നൊരു സത്യം |language=ml |work=[[Malayala Manorama]]}}</ref> After the release of the film, Adoor had a tiff with Zacharia over the film. Zachariah said Adoor tainted his story with [[Hindutva]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Ramnarayan |first=Gowri |date=September 24 – October 7, 2005 |title=A constant process of discovery |url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2220/stories/20051007001508200.htm |url-status=live |magazine=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514074302/http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2220/stories/20051007001508200.htm |archive-date=14 May 2014 |access-date=April 9, 2011}}</ref>


==Awards==
== Accolades ==
; [[41st National Film Awards|1993 National Film Awards]]
*[[41st National Film Awards|1993 National Film Awards]]
*[[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] - [[Mammootty]]
{| class="wikitable"
*[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam|Best Feature Film in Malayalam]] - [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
|+
 
!Category
; [[Kerala State Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.keralafilm.com/sfa93.htm|title=Kerala State Film Awards: 1993|publisher=[[Kerala State Chalachitra Academy]]|access-date=2011-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002054806/http://www.keralafilm.com/sfa93.htm|archive-date=2 October 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
!Winner
*[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]] - K. Raveendran Nair (producer), [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]] (director)
!Citation
*[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Director|Best Director]] - [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
|-
*[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] - [[Mammootty]]
|[[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
*[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Story|Best Story]] - [[Paul Zacharia]]
|[[Mammootty]] (also for ''[[Ponthan Mada]]'')
*[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Screen Play|Best Screenplay]] - [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
|''Depiction of the relationship of power and terror at an existential level.''
*[[Kerala State Film Award – Special Jury Award]] - [[M. R. Gopakumar]]
|-
|[[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.''
|}
* [[Kerala State Film Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kerala State Film Awards: 1993 |url=http://www.keralafilm.com/sfa93.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002054806/http://www.keralafilm.com/sfa93.htm |archive-date=2 October 2010 |access-date=2011-01-31 |publisher=[[Kerala State Chalachitra Academy]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=14 March 1994 |title='Vidheyan' bags six Kerala state awards |pages=11 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19940314&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=9 March 2023}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Category
!Winner
|-
|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
|Director – [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
Producer – [[K. Ravindranathan Nair|K. Ravindran Nair]] (General Pictures)
|-
|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|[[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
|-
|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
|[[Mammootty]]
|-
|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
|[[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
|-
|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Story|Best Story]]
|[[Paul Zacharia]]
|-
|[[Kerala State Film Award – Special Jury Award|Special Jury Award]]
|[[M. R. Gopakumar]]
|}
; Other awards
; Other awards
* NETPAC Award at the [[Rotterdam International Film Festival]]<ref name = hi>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/Must-Watch-International-Award-Winning-Malayalam-Films/Must-Watch-International-Award-Winning-Malayalam-Films/photostory/52255804.cms</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
* Interfilm Award - Honourable Mention at the [[International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg|Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival]]<ref name = hi/>
|+
* Feature FIPRESCI and Special Jury Prize, Singapore
!Award
|-
|NETPAC Award at [[International Film Festival Rotterdam|Rotterdam International Film Festival]]
|-
|INTER FILM Prize – Honourable Mention at the [[International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg|Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival]]
|-
|Special Jury Mention, [[Singapore International Film Festival]]
|-
|NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award, [[Singapore International Film Festival]]
|}


==References==
== References ==
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"The Servile" redirects here. For the album, see No Party for Cao Dong.
Vidheyan
File:Vidheyan poster.jpg
Vidheyan poster
Directed byAdoor Gopalakrishnan
Produced byK. Ravindran Nair
Screenplay byAdoor Gopalakrishnan
Based onBhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum
by Paul Zacharia
Starring
Music byVijaya Bhaskar
CinematographyMankada Ravi Varma
Edited byM. Mani
Release date
  • January 27, 1994 (1994-01-27)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Vidheyan (transl. The Servile) is a 1994 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed and written by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It is based on the novella Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Paul Zacharia. The film, starring Mammootty and M. R. Gopakumar, explores the master-slave relationship in a South Karnataka setting.

Vidheyan won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam and Best Actor Award for Mammootty. It also won numerous awards at the Kerala State Film Awards, including the Best Film.[1]

Plot[edit | edit source]

Thommy, a migrant labourer from Wayanad, Kerala, comes to Patellar's town in South Karnataka for survival. Pattellar, the landlord of the town, abuses him. He is a psychopath who loves to rape beautiful women. After learning from Thommy about his wife Omana, Pattellar rapes her that night. He then offers Thommy a job and gifts him things. He becomes an obedient servant of Pattellar, who continues to have sex with Omana every night. On seeing Kuttaparai's newly wedded beautiful daughter, Pattellar, without regard to consequences, kidnaps & rapes her also.

On one occasion, Pattellar senselessly beats a wealthy man, Yusuf. Pattellar's wife advises him to change his ways and be a good man. She is a kind woman and treats Thommy with love and affection. Fed up with her advice, Pattellar decides to kill his wife and asks for Thommy's help to make it look like an accident. During the attempt, Thommy is injured by a gunshot, instead of Pattellar's wife. He considers killing Thommy, but his wife makes arrangements to take Thommy to the hospital. Once recovered, one night Pattellar again goes to Thommy's house, not to have sex with Omana again but to take Thommy fishing in the temple pond, which is forbidden. They return unsuccessful. Yusuf, Kuttaparai, and several prominent members of the town decide to kill Pattellar and ask for Thommy's help. Thommy brings Pattellar to his house as per plan, but he escapes. He murders his wife and takes Thommy's help to stage it as suicide. Thommy weeps at Pattellar's wife's death. But soon her brothers discover the truth of the death of their sister and retaliate. Bruised and battered, Pattellar takes Thommy with him in search of a safe haven. Fleeing through the jungle, Pattellar is killed by his brothers-in-law. At first, Thommy weeps for his master, Pattellar. He eventually exults in freedom.

Cast[edit | edit source]

Production[edit | edit source]

The film is a cinematic adaptation of the novel Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Malayalam writer Paul 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 village Mangalore in Karnataka.[3] After the release of the film, Adoor had a tiff with Zacharia over the film. Zachariah said Adoor tainted his story with Hindutva.[4]

Accolades[edit | edit source]

Category Winner Citation
Best Actor Mammootty (also for Ponthan 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 at Rotterdam International Film Festival
INTER FILM Prize – Honourable Mention at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
Special Jury Mention, Singapore International Film Festival
NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award, Singapore International Film Festival

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Menon, Neelima (30 January 2022). "When Mammootty played the tyrant: Revisiting Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Vidheyan". The News Minute. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Kumar, Pradeep (21 March 1993). "There's no rigidity in my style". Sunday Magazine. Indian Express Limited. p. 6. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "പട്ടേലർ എന്നൊരു സത്യം". Malayala Manorama (in മലയാളം). 27 March 2011.
  4. ↑ Ramnarayan, Gowri (24 September – 7 October 2005). "A constant process of discovery". Frontline. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  5. ↑ "Kerala State Film Awards: 1993". Kerala State Chalachitra Academy. Archived from the original on 2 October 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  6. ↑ "'Vidheyan' bags six Kerala state awards". The Indian Express. 14 March 1994. p. 11. Retrieved 9 March 2023.

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