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Director
  
G. Aravindan

Running time
  
1h 46m

Writer
  
Govindan Aravindan

Language
  
4.8/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Music director
  
Hariprasad Chaurasia

Country
  
India

Pokkuveyil movie poster

Release date
  
22 January 1982 (1982-01-22)

Cast
  
Balachandran Chullikadu, Kalpana

Awards
  
Kerala State Film Award for Best Director

Similar movies
  
Related G Aravindan movies

Pokkuveyil ponnuruki chillu malayalam film song


Pokkuveyil (English: Twilight) is a 1982 Indian Malayalam film, directed by G Aravindan and produced by General Pictures ,Raveendranathan Nair. The film stars Balachandran Chullikkad, Kalpana,S Satish Kumar ( In Pokkuveyil Aravindan recorded its audio first as a composition for the flute by Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and the sarod by Rajeev Taranath. The visuals were 'composed' according to musical notations, without any script.

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Pokkuveyil won Aravindan the State Film award for best director.

Balachandran Chullikad ( Poet) , Kalpana ( Malayalam film actress ) , S Satish Kumar ( a national level basketball player) Kalabhavan Ansar and Chavara VP Nair were in lead roles. The film had musical score by Balachandran Chullikkad. The indefinability of the human mind is the theme of the film.

Plot

The protagonist of the film is a young artist (Balachandran Chullikkad) who lives with his father, a radical friend, a Sportsman and a music-loving young woman. His world collapses when his father dies, the radical friend leaves him, the sportsman friend gets injured in an accident and has to give up sports and her family takes the woman away to another city. The final shot shows him curled up in foetal position in his cell in a mental asylum.

The movie won the Rajat Kamal for the second best movie in the country for the year 1982 . It was screened in several international film festivals ,including Cannes.

Pokkuveyil won Aravindan the State Film award for best director.

The background music of this movie was done by the great Sri Hari Prasad Chaurasia with the flute.

Shaji Karun's outstanding work behind the Camera was one of the main highlights of this movie.

Cast

  • Balachandran Chullikkad
  • Kalpana
  • Kalabhavan Ansar
  • Chavara VP Nair
  • Vijayalakshmi
  • Satish Kumar
  • Soundtrack

    The music was composed by Balachandran Chullikkad and lyrics was written by Balachandran Chullikkad.

    References

    Pokkuveyil Wikipedia
    Pokkuveyil IMDb Pokkuveyil themoviedb.org