God's Own Country (2014 film)

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God's Own Country
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Film poster
Directed byVasudevan Sanal
Written byV. Praveen Kumar
Anish Francis
Arun Gopinath
Produced byHaseeb Hanif
Anto Joseph
Starring
CinematographyArun James
Arvind Krishna
Edited byRatheesh Raj
Music by Gopi Sundar
Release date
  • 9 May 2014 (2014-05-09)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

God's Own Country is a 2014 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Vasudevan Sanal. [1] [2] [3] [4] The film was initially titled RED (Rare Emotional Day). [5] [6]

Contents

Plot synopsis

God's Own Country is a three interwoven story. A taxi driver desperately seeking money for his daughter's operation, Manu travelling to Kerala to earn bail money for his wife, Asha. And, a public prosecutor striving to punish a rapist.

Cast

Soundtrack

Gopi Sundar composed the music. Jassie Gift sang the song "Chalanam". [7]

Track NameSingersLyrics
" Mannil Pathiyum"Vineeth Sreenivasan, Divya S MenonAnu Elizabeth Jose
" Chalanam Chalanam"Jassie GiftArun Gopinath

Reception

The Times of India gave the film a rating of three-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that "The movie, which has a few parallel narratives, has that deeply evocative humane quotient which makes each of its characters not just the leads, but also pure human beings". [8] Rediff gave the film two out of five stars and stated that "God's Own Country is over-written -- characters explain everything in words when a mere change of expression would do". [9]

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