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Naaraayam (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Narayam' is a 1993 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by Sasi Sankar and starring Murali and Urvashi in lead roles.
Plot
Gayathri (Urvashi) born into an impoverished Hindu Namboothiri family in Palakkad takes up the post of teaching Arabic in a school in Kozhikode. There she is supported in her decision by writer and social activist Shekharan (Murali) a widower with an only child and the manager of the school, Hajiyar (V. K. Sreeraman). The prospect of a Hindu woman teaching Arabic to Muslim students leads to communal problems mainly led by three people, Menon (Prathapachandran) who wants to take over the school management; by Hajiyar's son-in-law Azeez (Vijayaraghavan) who happened to take bribe for appointing a Muslim as Arabic teacher at the school; and the shrewd politician Chelakkadan (N. F. Varghese) who is waiting for an opportunity to unleash a communal riot and thereby reap electoral votes.
Kalpana plays a Muslim girl; Aboobackar plays man-servant at Shekharan's house; Jagadish plays a Muslim fish-seller who along with his mother played by Santha Devi support Gayathri; Kuthiravattam Pappu plays a Hindu gossip-monger who spreads malice about people; M. R. Gopakumar plays Gayathri's father a poverty-stricken temple dependent, M. S. Thripunithura plays a prominent Hindu who gets the job for Gayathri; Mamukkoya plays role of peon at the school; Santhakumari plays a disgruntled woman who suspects Gayathri of immoral motives.
Cast
* Urvashi as Gayathri
* Murali as Shekharan
* Kalpana
* Prathapachandran as Menon
* Vijayaraghavan as Azeez
* Aboobacker
* Jagadish
* Kuthiravattam Pappu
* M. R. Gopakumar as Damodharan Namboothiri
* M. S. Thripunithura as Iyer
* Mamukkoya
* N. F. Varghese as Chelakkadan
* Santha Devi
* Santhakumari
* V. K. Sreeraman as Hajiyar
References
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