Daivathinte Vikrithikal

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Daivathinte Vikrithikal
Directed byLenin Rajendran
Screenplay byM. Mukundan
Lenin Rajendran
Based onDaivathinte Vikrithikal
by M. Mukundan
StarringRaghuvaran
Srividya
Rajan P. Dev
Malavika
Music byMohan Sitara 13 AD (Title track)
CinematographyMadhu Ambat
Edited byN. Gopalakrishnan
Production
company
Sowparnika Movie Arts
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Daivathinte Vikrithikal (transl. Mischiefs of God) is a 1992 Malayalam-language film co-written and directed by Lenin Rajendran based on M. Mukundan's novel of the same name. The film tells the story of Alphonso, a man who chooses to suffer a slow, torturous life in his little village, Mahe, in preference to fortunes and pleasures away from it. Raghuvaran, Srividya, Rajan P. Dev and Malavika play the pivotal roles.

Raghuvaran was considered for the prestigious National Film Award for Best Actor, along with Mithun Chakraborty for Tahader Katha, but Mithun Chakraborty won the award.[citation needed]

Plot[edit]

The story begins in 1954, when the French, the colonial rulers were packing off from Mahé, a coastal town in North Malabar, after 230 years, leaving behind remnants of a cultural history. Those, who considered themselves as belonging to Francophone culture, jumped onto the first available vessel to France.

Alphonso ignored the repeated pleas of his wife, Maggi to leave the land, where they no longer "belonged". The new social order became more, suffocating as Alphonso's earnings (as a "magician" of sorts) dwindled. The arrival of their son, Michael, from France revived hopes of a life without poverty, but Michael went back, leaving behind counterfeit gold and plunging the Alphonso family in deeper debts. Daughter Elsie's affair with Sasi became a local scandal.

Alphonso decided to leave, but the decision hung in the air. Alphonso looked around in the realization that he cannot tear himself away from Mahé and the river to which he belonged. Mahé was within him even in a society, where he had no reason for the sense of belonging. In a way, the film reveals what is now described as authentic "ethnicity".

Cast[edit]

Awards[edit]

Kerala state film awards 1992

Novel[edit]

The film is based on an award-winning novel of the same name by M. Mukundan. The novel, published in 1989 by D. C. Books, is considered a sequel to Mukundan's magnum opus Mayyazhipuzhayude Theerangalil. The novel won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award and N. V. Prize. It was translated to English under the title God's Mischief by Penguin Books in 2002.

Trivia[edit]

The film featured a poem, Irulin Mahanidrayil, written by V Madhusoodanan Nair and rendered by the poet himself.[1]

References[edit]

  1. "Irulin mahaanidrayil ... (Daivathinte Vikrithikal - 1994)". www.malayalachalachithram.com. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.

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