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Oridathoru Phayalvaan

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'Oridathoru Phayalvaan' 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.

The film won the award for best script at the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival, and a gold medal at the Asian Film Festival.

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

* Jayadevan as Job

* Kariyachan

* Krishnankutty Nair as Veloonju (Kannan's father)

* Dhanya

* Mavelikkara Ramachandran

* Said

* Rishikesha Das

* Raju Paakkathu

References




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