Ore Kadal is the sensitive study of Deepti, a middle class
housewife, who is irresistibly drawn to a radical intellectual,
Nathan. As the affair grows in passion and intensity, Deepti’s
mounting sense of guilt pushes her towards mental instability.
Her husband and children are caught unawares in her
emotional conflict and her return to sanity only adds to her
inner torment. Based on a classical Bengali novel by Sunil
Gangopadhyay, the film which uses a casual encounter as a
contemplation of life, love and sex, is set in an India that is
moving rapidly towards globalization – a background where
socio-cultural changes are overturning age-old value systems
of the middle class so swiftly that the dividing lines between
right and wrong, loyalty and betrayal, honesty and deceit,
grow increasingly blurred, trapping the two protagonists in a
limbo of self-torture they must live with.
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay Shyamaprasad
Fotografia (colore) / Photography (colour) Alagappan
Montaggio / Editing Vinod Sukumaran
Musica / Music Ouseppachan, Girish Puthencheri
Interpreti / Cast Mammootty, Meera Jasmine, Narein, Remya Krishnan
Costumi / Costumes Cuckoo Parameswaran
Produzione / Production Vindhyan
Anno di produzione / Year of production
Durata / Running time 110’
Formato / Format 35mm Cinemascope
Shyamaprasad
After doing his degree in Theatre
Arts from the School of Drama, Calicut
University, Shyamaprasad
received the Commonwealth Scholarship
in 1989 and did his Master in
Media Production at the Hull University,
UK. He took the learning as
intern at BBC and Channel 4 to Indian
Television. He is president, Programming,
Amrita Television. His
features for TV and cinema have won
him several national and state
awards. Literary adaptations have
come to be the signature of his style.
For television he has adapted works
of Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus,
Vaikom Mohammed Basheer, Kamala
Surrayya, Sarah Joseph. His last film,
Akale, is inspired by the American
classic Glass Menagerie and the current
production, Ore Kadal, is based
on bengali novel – Heerak Deepti by
Sunil Gangopadhyay |
