Yaathrayude Anthyam

Yaathrayude Anthyam (Journey Ends)
Yaathrayude Anthyam (Journey Ends)
Directed by	K. G. George
Produced by	Doordarshan
Written by	K. G. George
Screenplay by	K. G. George; John Samuel
Story by	Parappurath
Based on	A short story by Parappurath
Starring	Murali; M.G. Soman; Karamana Janardanan Nair
Narrated by	Murali
Music by	M.G. Radhakrishnan
Cinematography	Venu; Sunny Joseph
Edited by	Rajasekharan
Production; company	Doordarshan
Release date	1989
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Yaathrayude Anthyam is a 1989 Television Malayalam film co-written and directed by K. G. George for Doordarshan. ^[1]^[2] National award winning actor Murali appears as a famous Malayalam writer. The film depicts his intellectual and emotional relationship with an intellectual who leads the life of a simple farmer in a remote village. The story unfolds through the writer's bus journey to visit him. This film never released in theaters.

Cast

Murali as Writer VKV
M.G. Soman as Abraham Sir
Karamana Janardhanan Nair as Kariyachan
Anand as Thomaskutty
Asha Jayaram as Molly
Shyama as Molykutty's sister
Aliyar as Man in the bus
Kaveri as Child in the bus

Plot

VKV Murali sets out for an overnight journey to meet his friend Abraham sir MG Soman following the receipt of a telegram from Abraham sir's side. Perplexed on why such a telegram was sent instead of a letter, VKV recounts their relationship and how they inspired each other, throughout the journey. The journey focuses on the lives of fellow travelers also. An NRI in the bus, a wedding party etc. At the fag end of the journey, VKV sees the man sitting next to him, bride's father Karamana die. VKV reaches his destination only to find Abraham sir's dead body. Abraham sir's daughter tells VKV that her father was waiting for him on his dead bed and said VKV would be travelling in bus and will see him die while travelling. VKV gets shocked. Abraham sir in one of their old discussions had said life is a repeatition of the set of same images, though the characters essentially only the people change.

Critical response

For plumeriamovies Arjun Anand ^[3] wrote, Yaathrayude Anthyam is the most simplest film of the writer, it almost feels like a stretched out slice-of-life episode. But the filmmaking is quietly engaging. Death is a very melodramatic subject. If his contemporaries, Padmarajan in his Moonnam Pakkam, Lohithadas in Bharatham or Dennis Joseph in Akashadoothu among others, treated death and grief with melodrama and exuberant poignance, KG George’s take on the subject―just like any other work of his―is subdued, objective and intellectual. The profoundness in his writing is not literary like MT/Lohi, it’s rather rational.