Kalika
Today evening, Asianet showed the 1980 Malayalam film Kalika. Based on a horror novel by Mohanachandran (I remember reading few chapters of this novel in old issues of Kumkumam weekly when I was in school), this film is directed by Balachandra Menon, and surprisingly, he doesn’t act in this one!
The story is about four people (played by four nice actors - Balan K Nair, Sukumaran, Venu Nagavally and Sreenath) coming to stay at a haunted house in a village. A village elder (Adoor Bhasi) comes to help them in settling down. They come to know that the devi of the village is captured by someone using sorcery, and the story shows how they rescue the devi.
In the initial scenes, the director has succeeded in creating a romantically eerie atmosphere just with the help of six or seven characters and absolutely no technical gimmicks, and I liked the scenes from the old Kerala village. The film disappointed in later scenes, but nevertheless it was good watching an old Malayalam film during the weekend, instead of junk films like Daivathinte Makan which they have been repeatedly showing on television during weekends for ages.
The story is about four people (played by four nice actors - Balan K Nair, Sukumaran, Venu Nagavally and Sreenath) coming to stay at a haunted house in a village. A village elder (Adoor Bhasi) comes to help them in settling down. They come to know that the devi of the village is captured by someone using sorcery, and the story shows how they rescue the devi.
In the initial scenes, the director has succeeded in creating a romantically eerie atmosphere just with the help of six or seven characters and absolutely no technical gimmicks, and I liked the scenes from the old Kerala village. The film disappointed in later scenes, but nevertheless it was good watching an old Malayalam film during the weekend, instead of junk films like Daivathinte Makan which they have been repeatedly showing on television during weekends for ages.
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