Olavum Theeravum

Olavum Theeravum
Olavum Theeravum
Directed by P. N. Menon
Produced by Shobhana Parameswaran Nair
Written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Starring Madhu
Usha Nandini
Music by M S Baburaj
Cinematography Mankada Ravi Varma
Release date(s) 1970
Country India
Language Malayalam

Olavum Theeravum is a 1970 Malayalam film directed by P. N. Menon. It has been credited with helping to bring about a "flowering of art-house films that have today become the defining quality of Malayalam cinema",[1] with being Malayalam cinema's "breakthrough into realism",[2] and as "a watershed in the history of Malayalam cinema".[3]

Contents

Plot

A Muslim trader falls in love with a beautiful Hindu girl[4] but her mother forces her to marry another man. The couple commit suicide.

Cast

  • Madhu - Bapputti
  • Usha Nandini - Nabisa
  • Philomina - Nabisa's Mother
  • Jose Prakash - Kunjali

References

  1. ^ Kasbekar, Asha (2006). Pop culture India!: media, arts, and lifestyle. ABC-CLIO. p. 235. ISBN 9781851096367. 
  2. ^ Baviskar, Amita (2003). Waterlines, the Penguin book of river writings. Penguin Books. p. 206. ISBN 9780143030386. 
  3. ^ South Asian cinema (South Asian Cinema Foundation) 1 (2): 47. 2001. 
  4. ^ Ray, Bibekananda; Naveen Joshi (2005). Conscience of the race: India's offbeat cinema. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. p. 112. ISBN 9788123012988. 

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