Pazhassiraja was the one movie got fair attention from the viewers but less feedback from the ‘box office’ (according to the industry dialogue).

Let’s talk about their recent work, ‘EZHAMATHE VARAVU’ released few days back; Just after few hours of watching the movie, I wish to state “The movie tells about the man-nature conflict and it warns at the end, the reaction of nature may become a beating over the territory, which keeps the things down inside the soil forever.”

Movie begins with the ‘top-angle static shot’ of a water pond and it trembles by the entry of an unknown. The unknown will be recognized by now by its roaring. Here the camera moves unbalanced into the deep rain-forest and it ends by a ‘circle pan’ shot. Now the viewer would get the clear idea about the geographical location of the story. The movie ends with a ‘circle pan’ shot and there is a message OR meaning OR advice is being given by the story teller as well as film maker.

Story line: Dr. Prasad (Vineeth), an archeologist arrives to Waynad woods to dig and unearth the available deposits of Chera Kingdom, which might relay under the soil since a thousand year. He meets Gopinath (Indrajith) a wealthy planter of the region and his wife (Bhanu). Nagu works as the guard of an estate bungalow and his daughter Mala jointly helps Dr. Prasad to gain the comfortable accommodation at bungalow owned by planter Gopinath.

    Dr. Prasad digs and finds new evidence to substantiate the existence of the Chera dynasty. He ensures somewhat pleasure at the lap of the forest and grip to its love of musical symphony. The inhabitants, their life, art and beliefs slightly enter into the lonely life of the young man. The story gets a new phase when a Nari (tiger) visits the settlement of inhabitants and seizes women in continues days. The conflict of the story begins here till the death of _______ (What? that I could not reveal right now here, because I want you to rush into the theatre to watch).

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Man-nature conflict has been discussing through the movies, stories, drama and other form of arts but it never reduce the value or need of another talk. The tiger had been a symbol of a rigid reaction of nature against of human or his acts. How the fear accumulates to the eyes of human after facing cruelty is excellently drafted in the scenes of the movie. In the movie, the tiger targets only women, what it means to us. “Women is the idol of reproductive system,” Right? In India, we tie all the reproductive matter/objects/stuffs into the women name. Here we could really fetch the essence of values combined with the movie.

The ‘Adivasis’ of the forest believes that the tiger is the ghost of an old man and it stops hunting the women only at the number ‘7’. The hunting of women by the wild continued every day in various instances. One may happen at mid night, the next would be at twilight. The hunting reaches to ‘6’ people keeps away from the forest due to fear of life, but some of them seriously waiting for the tiger’s 7th arrival (EZHAMATHE VARAVU). Who are they? (Now you can’t move away without watching the climax).

This movie was adopted from an unreleased movie ‘EVIDEYO ORU SHTHRU’ by the same creators, but did not release that day by un-luck. Since it is an old story, everybody think there might be a romance. Yes, it is there, but I wontedly skip it from writing for no reason.

In my personal opinion it is a wonderful movie, must be watched by everyone.

Regards,

Murali Margassery