Oridathoru Phayalvaan
1981 Indian film
- 30 October 1981 (1981-10-30)
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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.[1]
The film won the award for best script at the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival,[2] and a gold medal at the Asian Film Festival.[3]
Plot
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 any more. He leaves her his signature drawing of a conch shell. A frog gigging neighbour 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
- M Jayagopal as Job
- Kariyachan
- Krishnankutty Nair as Veloonju (Kannan's father)
- Dhanya
- Mavelikkara Ramachandran
- Said
- Rishikesha Das
- Raju Paakkathu
References
- ^ Vijayakumar, B. (27 November 2016). "Oridathoru Phayalwan: 1981". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 19 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
- ^ ""PAPPETTAN" TO ALL IN THE FILM FIELD". padmarajan.8k.com. Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ^ "p padmarajan". cinemaofmalayalam.net. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
External links
- Oridathoru Phayalvaan at IMDb
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Works by Padmarajan
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- Nakshathrangale Kaaval
- Vadakakkoru Hridhyam
- Rithubhedhangalude Paarithoshikam
- Udakappola
- Itha Ivide Vare
- Shavavahanangalum Thedi
- Manju Kaalam Notta Kuthira
- Prathimayum Rajakumariyum
- Onnu Randu Moonnu
- Peruvazhiyambalam
- Thakara
- Rathinirvedam
- Jalajwala
- Nanmakalude Sooryan
- Vikramakaaleeswaram
- Lola Milford Enna American Penkidaavu
- Prahelika
- Aparan
- Pukakkannada
- Mattullavarude Venal
- Padmarajante Kadhakal
- Kaivariyude Thekke Attam
- Syphilisinte Nadakkavu
- Kazhinja Vasantha Kaalathil
