about a single thing in the film as they felt it portrayed
only what they suffered as a course of displacement
caused by development.
On the way back to home through Ernakulam on
Friday was different, I was never attracted by sky
kissing flats and it well lit lights but the ground beneath
it demanded much time if mine. Passing through the
bridge near Ksrtc bus stand, I saw hamlets which are
hardly five feet high; suddenly a sense of concern
drenched me giving the doubts and clue about the
location of kammatipadam.
Quite contrary to normalcy, I was searching for more
images- image of a cobbler in his old age struck. I
was wondered to see a girl going on selling cold frooti
packs from windows to windows of buses halting in
the bus stand in darkness a time when the very name
Jisha created a pain and insecurity in the mind of
females of all age. Survival could be the sole reason of
our most political act in the time of so much violence
against women. How did they become the way they
are now? May be when the city expanded and reached
its heights, the girl and the cobbler would have been
swept off from its ambit. The success of the movie is
when its unfurl the buried images through it after days
of watching it. Movie Kammatipadam has a strong
back up of a script from balettan, still Rajeev Ravi’s
ability to select stories and its characters which can
never be separated from life is needless to say. Steve
still follows me in darkness, I could never understand
if it was Farhan or Rajeev which encompasses the soul
of Steve. Steve was that soulful! Rasool was never a
stranger and Kammatipadam talks about unnoticed
and unattractive Dalit-upper caste Politics. Rajeev
Ravi always bring to limelight political Subjects of
people who are on fire – an image reality.
Casting of all the three movies takes place at a different
level. Every single actor of each movie takes place
at different level. Every single actor of each roles is
the best fit for it and there is no substitute for it. and
he is the man who have brainstormed the vision and
mind of audience with location. Many would have
not imagined going to Mukkam after seeing Modien
or tawang after NPCB. But people have felt this
uncontrollable gush in their minds to see University
College and Palayam and Fort Kochi with its roads
through which hardly one can walk, after seeing
Njan Steve Lopse and Annayum Rasoolum. Constant
search to ascertain the location of Kammatipadam
occurs on my every travel to home from Thrissur
on Fridays. I could realize my eyes fleeing through
different landscapes in the ground near the bridge at
ksrtc bus stand.
After a long wait for many years, this year’s state film
awards was in fact a bliss for the audience, but the
real star whose name was not mentioned anywhere
was Rajeev Ravi. The pseudo-discourses initiated
by sreenivasan through his highly apolitical movies
ranges till Mexican Aparatha in Malayalam film
industry and so called enlightenment process has
reached its zenith through these kinds of movies.
Deconstruction of the public notion of best actor was
neatly executed by creating roles of Ganga and Balan
through the magical spell of this director. Rajeev
Ravi smashed the hegemony in the Malayalam film
industry’s award by giving a clear idea that his movies
are not to entertain anybody, but to show hs politics
at a point of time when apolitical movies are claiming
to be political.
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