Pinneyum (English: Once Again) is a 2016 Indian Malayalam-language Biographical crime drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Businessman Baby Mathew Somatheeram co-produced the film. The film portrays a love story where Dileep and Kavya Madhavan (in her final acting credit before marriage) star in the lead roles.[1][2] This film was loosely adapted from the murder incident in Kerala during 1984 by Sukumara Kurup, a wanted criminal.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
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| Directed by | Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
| Written by | Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
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| Cinematography | M. J. Radhakrishnan |
| Edited by | B. Ajithkumar |
| Music by | Bijibal |
| Distributed by | Kalasangham Films |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Plot
editA man, Anand Sharma, is found dead in a hotel room. Then the story changes to Purushothaman Nair, a graduate who has been unemployed for the past eight years, lives with his wife Devi, daughter Revathi, his father-in-law Pappu Pillai, and his sickly brother-in-law Kuttan in Pillai's house. In his free time, Nair enjoys reading detective novels. He gets a call back for a job in the Gulf. From then on, people's attitudes toward him change. He is well respected in his village and freely offers assistance to people who come to him for help, but he begins to become greedy.
In an effort to make more money he devises a plan to fake his death to get insurance money. Along with his father-in-law and Devi's uncle, Nair decides to put a dead body in his car and then burn it to make it appear as though he was burned along with the car. Because the trio cannot find a body, they decide to kill a man and use his body. Driving at night, they come across a man who asks for a ride to the hospital where his first child was being born. Devi's uncle strangles the man to death and the three of them place him in the driver's seat and proceed to burn the car. Everyone (except Devi, to whom Nair had told the whole plan) considers Nair dead, while Nair disappears. Forensic reports, however, soon reveal that the man killed in the car was not Nair but an unidentified person. Police arrest Kuttan, Pillai, and Devi's uncle for questioning, where Kuttan is thrashed. The other two surrender, saying that the man was killed by accident and, being afraid of the consequences, they had burned his body along with the car.
Seventeen years pass and it is revealed that Kuttan remains bed-ridden from the thrashing, Pillai refuses to see anyone in jail, Devi's uncle has died in jail, and Nair is still missing. One night, a man comes to Devi's window and calls out to her. When he sees that she is frightened, he reveals that he is Nair. He had undergone plastic surgery to escape from authorities and now lives under the alias Anand Sharma. Frightened and not believing him, Devi threatens to call the police, which makes him leave. He returns for a few nights, and Devi finally accepts that he is her husband. She refuses to join him in his new life, however, claiming that he destroyed her and her family's life and does not want to see him again. Nair returns the next night, tells her that he will not come into her life again, and leaves.
The first scene of the movie continues where the police find a suicide note under Sharma's bed in the hotel room in which he had written, "I have one request. Do not go in search of who I am. I, myself, do not know who I am." This leaves everyone puzzled.
Cast
edit- Dileep as Purusothaman Nair Based on Sukumara Kurup
- Subodh Bhave as Anand Sharma (Purushothaman Nair after plastic surgery)
- Kavya Madhavan as Devi. Purusothaman Nair's wife
- Nedumudi Venu as Pappu Pilla
- Vijayaraghavan as Manikandan Nair
- Akshara Kishor as Revathi. Purusothaman Nair's daughter
- Indrans as Kuttan Pillai
- K. P. A. C. Lalitha
- Nandhu as Ayyappan Kurup
- Sudheer Karamana as Sub Inspector
- Sathi Premji
- Srinda Ashab as Sharada
- Meera Nallur
- Krishnan Balakrishnan
- Arun Benny as Poovarasan Eetrajavum
- Krishna Prasad as Photographer
Production
editAdoor Gopalakrishnan announced Pinneyum after eight years with Dileep in a press meeting on 23 March 2016. Filming started on 11 May 2016 in Sasthamkootta, the main location. Pinneyum was Gopalakrishnan's first digital film.[12]
References
edit- ^ "Dileep and Kavya will lead in Adoor Gopalakrishnan's romantic drama Pinneyum". Manorama Online.
- ^ "Pinneyum for Toronto fete". The Hindu. 25 August 2016. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ Shedde, Meenakshi. "Adoor Gopalakrishnans Pinneyum Is a Mismatch of Existential T..." The Huffington Post.
- ^ "Pinneyum review. Pinneyum Malayalam movie review, story, rating".
- ^ "Pinneyum movie review: Adoor Gopalakrishnan disappoints as film stuck in theatrical mode". 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Pinneyum review: Disappointing fare from an old master". The Hindu. 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Pinneyum Movie Review {2.5/5}: Critic Review of Pinneyum by Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ "Pinneyum review: Adoor's new film is poignant despite some confused characterisation". 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Pinneyum review - Disappointing!". Sify. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016.
- ^ "Pinneyum movie review: Adoor Gopalakrishnan returns, but only in parts". 20 August 2016.
- ^ "'Pinneyum' movie review: Of Adoor touch and identity crisis".
- ^ "Adoor Gopalakrishnan Interview: "I Shoot Every Film Like It Is My First"". Silverscreen.in. 18 August 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
External links
edit- ^ "Pinneyum Adoor Gopalakrishnan's starts rolling". Film Fever Media. filmfever. 15 May 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Dileep and kavya to join hands for new Movie". Film Fever Media. filmfever. 11 May 2016. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016.