Oridathoru Phayalvaan

Oridathoru Phayalvaan (English: There Lived a Wrestler, aka Once There Was a Wrestler) is a 1981 Malayalam film written, edited and directed by P. Padmarajan. The film is a folk parable about the success and failure in the life of a wrestler. It stars Rashid, Nedumudi Venu and Jayanthi in the lead roles.It Shows the life of the wrestler in Kerala's background.It is an experimental work of Padmarajan's craft.

Oridathoru Phayalvaan
(There Lived a Wrestler)
Directed byP. Padmarajan
Produced byR Suresh
Written byP. Padmarajan
StarringRashid
Nedumudi Venu
Jayanthi
Music byJohnson
CinematographyVipindas
Edited byP. Padmarajan
Production
company
Thundathil Films
Release date
  • 30 October 1981 (1981-10-30)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

It won the award for Best Script at the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival,[1] and a gold medal at the Asian Film Festival.[2]

Plot

Patronized by a village tailor, a wrestler becomes a local hero when he defeats all his opponents and claims the prettiest woman as his wife. As a story within a story it also portrays how the tailor makes a profit from the illiterate wrestler. He marries a girl, only for it to be revealed later that he has another wife and isn't interested in her more than a trophy. He abandons his wife and the village when his wife falls for other men in his absence and she acknowledges that she doesn't love him anymore. He leaves her his signature drawing of a conch shell. A frog gigging neighbor youth is entrapped by the girl's mother to marry her conceived daughter.

Cast
  • Rashid as Phayalvaan (wrestler)
  • Nedumudi Venu as Shivanpillai (Mesthiri)
  • Jayanthi as Chakkara, the woman courted by the wrestler
  • K. G. Devakiyamma as Chakkara's mother
  • Ashokan as Kannan
  • Jayadevan as Job
  • Kariyachan
  • Krishnankutty Nair as Veloonju (Kannan's father)
  • Dhanya
  • Mavelikkara Ramachandran
  • Said
  • Rishikesha Das
  • Raju Paakkathu

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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