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Country
  
India

Director
  
Ratheesh Ravi

Language
  
Malayalam

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Ardhanareeswaran is an upcoming Malayalam fantasy Adventure film directed by Ratheesh Ravi. The film, which features Jayasurya, Rima Kallingal and Anoop Menon, deals with transgenderism, and includes over 300 hijadas. Mathews, who is born as a boy child, but brought up as a girl. He is forced to leave the native place after the villagers make fun of him. He reaches the land of hijadas. After meeting many people there with the identical characteristics, he decides to become one among them in the name Sandhya.

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The film portrays the various rituals that are prominent in the hijada communities in India. The movie is produced by Anand Kumar in the banner of Yes Cinema Company.

Cast

  • Jayasurya as Mathews/Sandhya
  • Rima Kallingal
  • Anoop Menon as Niran Ghosh, a film director
  • Lena as Hema
  • Jagathy Sreekumar
  • Plot

    The film story is about Mathews who is born as a boy but has been brought up as a girl. Hence what happens is that the mannerisms of a girl get imbibed into his character. When he goes up he becomes the point of mockery among the public. Girls laughed at him and boys make fun of him, while others ignore him as an outcast. It is this scenario that is included in the film in the point of view of the victim. It is then the Mathews decide to leave the town and he reaches the area where hijadas are prominent. There he finds many people who are like him and finds the perfect place to live. He takes the name of Sandhya.

    In the hijada community he looks up on a senior hijada named Hemakka as his guru and tries to follow her in her every regard. The movie takes a turn when Sandhya falls in love with Niran Ghosh. Sandhya understand that only way to get Niran Ghosh to love him is to truly become a woman.

    Production

    The film under planning for three years now, in which now it has become full length film, the films locations are Bangalore, Hampi, Shimoga, Varanasi, Mysore, Bellari. According to the director, the film will have action sequences never before seen in Indian Cinema. This film will reportedly have Jayasurya performing his own stunts.

    Casting

    Actor Vikram was chosen to play the lead role but had to drop the film due to clash of dates, Jayasurya was chosen after the director watched Jayasuryas performance in Cocktail. Rima Kallingal plays the female lead alongside Jayasurya in the film whilst Anoop Menon will be seen as a supporting actor. Other members of the cast include Lena, Parvathy Menon, Jagathi Sreekumar and four new actors held from the auditions. Shoot will start on September 2012.

    References

    Ardhanareeswaran Wikipedia