| Aalokam: Ranges of Vision | |
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| Directed by | Abhilash Babu |
| Screenplay by | Abhilash Babu |
| Story by | Robert Browning Abhilash Babu |
| Produced by | Crowd Funding |
| Starring | Abhijith Chithrakumar Viju Nadakappura Amrutha Vijay Lekshmipriya |
| Cinematography | Jithin Mathew |
| Edited by | Anu George |
| Music by | Open Source |
Production company | the week-end academia Thiruvananthapuram |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Aalokam: Ranges of Vision is a 2023 independent, experimental, Malayalam language anthology film directed by Abhilash Babu in his debut directorial. The film, a crowd funded one, has six different chapters, five of them based on the poems by the Victorian poet Robert Browning. [1] The film had its official premiere on 16 July 2023 [2] [3] and had its YouTube release on 25 March 2025. [4] [5]
Aalokam: Ranges of Vision presents a film within the film, in the first five chapters, while the last chapter tells the story of an aspiring director. [6]
The actors of the film were selected through casting call and participated in an acting workshop before filming started. [3] Along with Robert Browning's five poems, shown as a film within the film, [7] the final chapter uses a story by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz as a Drama. [8] The film was completed with a budget of twelve lakh fifty thousand, taking seven days for shooting on different dates of 2022 and 2023.