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Movie
German title Waiting in the Twilight
The Birth (DVD)
Original title Piravi
Country of production India
original language Malayalam
Publishing year 1988
length 104 minutes
Rod
Director Shaji N. Karun
script Shaji N. Karun , S. Jayachandran Nair , Reghunath Paleri
production Shaji N. Karun
music Govindan Aravindan
camera Sunny Joseph
cut Venugopal
occupation

Piravi ( Malayalam : പിറവി, translated: birth ) is an award-winning Indian film by Shaji N. Karun from 1988. The film is based on the book by TV Eachara Warriers Memories of a Father . The book itself is also based on a true story and describes the writer's experience of the loss of his son Rajan.

action

Raghu is the only son of the now old Raghavan Chakyar and his sick wife. Raghu is now studying engineering in the next big city. His father is waiting for him at home so that they can celebrate his daughter Malathi's engagement. Every day he waits until late at night at the bus stop for Raghus to return. But his son does not come and he does not receive any information from Raghus' fellow students.

They found out about Raghu's detention by the police through the newspaper. The reason for this was a political argument. Raghavan decides to look for his son and travels to town. From one police station to the next, even to the main branch, he asks about Raghu. But nobody seems to know about Raghu. They deny the facts that Raghu was ever arrested.

Raghavan returns to the village disappointed. His daughter Malathi becomes suspicious and goes on a search herself. She learns from Raghu's comrades that Raghu died as a result of torture by the police. At home, she doesn't have the heart to tell her father the truth. He in turn begins to dream of a united family.

Awards

1989 Cannes International Film Festival ( France )

1989 Edinburgh International Film Festival ( UK )

  • Sir Charles Chaplin Award - Shaji N. Karun

1989 Locarno International Film Festival ( Switzerland )

  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention - Shaji N. Karun
  • Silver Leopard - Shaji N. Karun
  • Nomination for the Golden Leopard - Shaji N. Karun

1989 National Film Award ( India )

1989 Hawaii International Film Festival ( USA )

  • Best Feature Film - Shaji N. Karun

1989 Chicago International Film Festival ( USA )

  • Silver Hugo - Shaji N. Karun

1990 Bergamo Film Meeting ( Italy )

1990 Friborg International Film Festival ( Switzerland )

  • Distribution Help Award - Shaji N. Karun

1991 Fajr Film Festival ( Iran )

  • Crystal Simorgh - International Competition: Superb Film - Shaji N. Karun

criticism

“The most amazing, sometimes contrapuntal tones grow out of the monochronously rich-looking images that avoid everything glaring; Shaji gives them an equally important meaning and a great deal of attention. His film sings us a polyphonic song of inner calm, starts a water music on which we slide along, as it were. And at the same time he unobtrusively thematizes an inner gradient in a state like India, which is indelibly marked by colonial traces, in which the contrast between country and city is immense. The political is immanent. Shaji shows us this in a few precisely composed shots in front of our eyes and ears, in a film language that, like its plot, dispenses with false hectic pace and moves with gentle impulses on the flow of life, a life that, in the extract from the Upanishads, a holy Indian text, in the prologue exists as a constantly recurring one, in which death means beginning, water means life. "by Walter Ruggle (trigon-film.com)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/apr/24rajeev.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.pucl.org/from-archives/81oct/rajan.htm
  3. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/216852.stm
  4. ↑ http://www.trigon-film.org/de/movies/Piravi

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