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Mathilukal (1990)

Mathilukal (1990)

Drama Romance

What is Freedom?

Release Date: 1990, May 18
Directors: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Countries: India
Production: Adoor Gopalakrishnan Productions, Adoor Gopalakrishnan Productions
Cast: Mammootty, KPAC Lalitha, K. P. A. C. Azeez, Sreenath, Murali, Ravi Vallathol, Thilakan, Jagannatha Varma, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Vembayam Thampi, B K Nair

Overview:

Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.