![]() I feel that support is immense, the appreciation is immense. How do you feel about the reception your movie is getting? There has always been a glorification of savarna class in mainstream films. The Malayalam cinema was always ‘savarna’ in its nature and ‘anti cast’ in it’s nature. ![]() Not just in Malayalam cinema, Kerala society itself feels shameful to discuss the question of caste. Dileesh Pothan is a more logical, rational person, more humane and that’s the similarity I felt with the character.ĭo you think that Malayalam films are discussing caste issues much ? That’s what I could identify with him with Ajayan Mannur. Joju as a person can get affected easily, at the same time he is very tough also. The character he played is the political commentator of that action. He also has a certain kind of romanticism with engagement with literature, cinema. Because of Kunchako Boban’s romantic hero image, I thought he should play this young man from Wayanad. Given Vinayakan’s location, I felt like he is best person to do Kallara babu. I was casting them because they had some kind of similarity with the character. Were these four your first choice for the four characters? It took a year to finish my reasearch and writing simultaneously. They were all affected by this incident in one way or other. I met the then district collector and district judge, the chief secretary then, and also the IG northzone at that time to get a perspective from all sides. I met all the four characters who took part in the act. From his memories I could see the screenplay. Then I got into my research and met M N Ravunni, the leader of Porattam. Then we thought of the possibility of writing a script based on that incident. In 2018 January, when I was preparing for a different movie, producer CV Sarathi and I got into discussion about the Dalit-Adivasi issues and we suddenly remembered about this incident. How did you first think about making a movie based on the incident and what were the preparations? The director was a journalism student at the time of the incident and he still remembers how the news came in their class. The montage at the end of the movie shows some powerful images of the protests by Adivasis and the police action on them. The film raises some uncomfortable questions and throws light on how the successful governments of the state has dealt with the issues of tribals. Though set in 1996, the issues raised by the movie are relevant even now. The film has been successful in communicating the message without being overtly dramatic. The movie is thoroughly engaging and actors Kunchacko Boban, Dileesh Pothan, Joju George and Vinayakan have done a tremendous job with their layered performances. On October 4, 1996, four of them entered into the chamber of Palakkad district collector and took him hostage for about 9 hours demanding that the amendment be brought in but the EK Nayanar government should be withdrawn. Pada is based on a real-life incident where four activists who identify themselves as “ayyankali pada” take a district collector hostage and their demand is to withdraw the 1996 amendment to the 1975 Kerala scheduled tribes (Restriction on transfer of lands and restoration of alienated lands) act. In that sense I am very happy that the film has created ripples in this dead water of Malayalam Films," he said. ![]() It can just point at the issue, prepare the audience for a further discussion. “A film cannot talk about everything around an issue. ![]() The director says that he is happy that the film has created ripples and that there is a debate and discussion around the topic he raised. Symbols, abbreviations, or full names for units of length,Īrea, mass, pressure, and other types.Malayalam movie Pada, by director Kamal KM, has created a lot of buzz by raising the relevant issue of land rights of the Adivasis. You can find metric conversion tables for SI units, as wellĪs English units, currency, and other data. However, both American and non-American forms of English agree that the spelling "meter" should be used as a suffix in the names of measuring devices such as chronometers and micrometers.Ĭonversion calculator for all types of measurement units. The internationally-accepted spelling of the unit in English is "metre", although the American English spelling meter is a common variant. The metre, symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of "length", in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. It is approximately equal to 0.621 miles, 1094 yards or 3281 feet. Metre to kilometre, or enter any two units below: Enter two units to convert From:Ī kilometre (American spelling: kilometer, symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). You can do the reverse unit conversion from ![]()
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