Final-Film Festival-13-11-08.p65 - Directorate of Film Festivals
Final-Film Festival-13-11-08.p65 - Directorate of Film Festivals
Final-Film Festival-13-11-08.p65 - Directorate of Film Festivals
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SYNOPSISORE KADAL(The Sea within)35mm/colour/Malayalam/123 minutes/ESTIn Ore Kadal (The Sea Within), Shyamaprasad's latest film,he continues to explore the intricacies <strong>of</strong> human relationships,once again employing an evocative style and imagery thattranscend realism, whose delicate nuances and minimalism havebeen likened to chamber music. While Agnisakshi (1998) dealswith the strained marital relationship <strong>of</strong> a Brahmin couple againstthe charged background <strong>of</strong> social reform and the Independencestruggle, Akale (2004) depicts an Anglo-Indian family whosemembers keep failing to understand or communicate with oneanother.Ore Kadal (The Sea Within) is the sensitive study <strong>of</strong> Deepti,a middle class housewife, who is irresistibly drawn to a radicalintellectual, Nathan. As the affair grows in passion and intensity,Deepti's mounting sense <strong>of</strong> guilt pushes her towards mentalinstability. Her husband and children are caught unawares in heremotional conflict and her return to sanity only adds to herinner torment. Relationships, the searing lure <strong>of</strong> love, the painand agony <strong>of</strong> having to live a life without love, the pain <strong>of</strong>walking into someone's life and <strong>of</strong> walking out, the trauma <strong>of</strong>giving birth to babies and families, the tortuous wander betweenlust and love, these are the dilemmas that haunt this film.Based on a classical Bengali novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay,Ore Kadal is set in an India that is moving rapidly towardsglobalization - a background where socio-cultural changes areoverturning age-old value systems <strong>of</strong> the middle class so swiftlythat the dividing lines between right and wrong, loyalty andbetrayal, honesty and deceit, grow increasingly blurred, trappingthe two protagonists in a limbo <strong>of</strong> self-torture they must livewith.CAST AND CREDITSProduced by:Based on:Screenplayand Direction:Cinematography:Editing:Music:Cast:Contact:VindhyanA novel by Sunil GangopadhyayShyamaprasadAlagappanVinod SukumaranOuseppachanMammootty, Meera Jasmine, Narein,Remya KrishnanVindhyan for Rasika Entertainments,23, Ambady Retreat, ChelavannoorRoad, Kadavabthara Post, Kochi – 20,Kerela, India. Phone: (+91) (484)23<strong>11</strong>1919, (+91)984620645644 45