Yaathrayude Anthyam

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Yaathrayude Anthyam (Journey Ends)
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Yaathrayude Anthyam (Journey Ends)
Directed by K. G. George
Written by K. G. George
Screenplay by K. G. George
John Samuel
Story by Parappurath
Based onKottayam Mananthavady, a short story by Parappurath
Produced by Doordarshan
Starring Murali
M.G. Soman
Annamma Abraham
Karamana Janardanan Nair
Narrated byMurali
Cinematography Venu
Sunny Joseph
Edited byRajasekharan
Music by M.G. Radhakrishnan
Production
company
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Country India
Language Malayalam

Yaathrayude Anthyam is a 1989 Malayalam-language television film co-written and directed by K. G. George for Doordarshan. [1] [2] The film stars Murali as a reputed writer. The film depicts his intellectual and emotional relationship with an intellectual (M.G. Soman) who leads the life of a simple farmer in a remote village, and his worries about his widowed daughter (Annamma Abraham) who has a five-year-old girl child.The story is entirely based on these relationships. The story unfolds through the writer's bus journey to visit him. This film was never released in theaters. The film is based on the short story, "Kottayam Manathavadi", by Parappurath.

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Plot

VKV sets out for an overnight journey to meet his friend Abraham following the receipt of a telegram from Abraham's side. Perplexed on why such a telegram was sent instead of a letter, VKV recounts their relationship and how they inspired each other, throughout the journey. The journey focuses on the lives of fellow travelers also. An NRI in the bus, a wedding party etc. At the fag end of the journey, VKV sees the man sitting next to him, bride's father die. VKV reaches his destination only to find Abraham's dead body. Abraham's daughter tells VKV that her father was waiting for him on his dead bed and said VKV would be travelling in bus and will see him die while travelling. VKV gets shocked. Abraham in one of their old discussions had said life is a repetition of the set of same images, though the characters essentially only the people change.

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Critical response

For plumeriamovies, Arjun Anand wrote, Yaathrayude Anthyam is the most simplest film of the writer, it almost feels like a stretched out slice-of-life episode. But the filmmaking is quietly engaging. Death is a very melodramatic subject. If his contemporaries, Padmarajan in his Moonnam Pakkam , Lohithadas in Bharatham or Dennis Joseph in Akashadoothu among others, treated death and grief with melodrama and exuberant poignance, KG George's take on the subject―just like any other work of his―is subdued, objective and intellectual. The profoundness in his writing is not literary like MT/Lohi, it's rather rational. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Yaathrayude Anthyam". www.malayalachalachithram.com. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Yaathrayude Anthyam". malayalasangeetham.info. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "'Yaathrayude Anthyam' ponders on Death and grief through the radical lens". Plumeria Movies. 21 June 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.

Writing his tribute to KG George, Sajesh Mohan of Onmanorama wrote In Yathrayude Anthyam, George trains the camera on actor Murali's face for an extended period, yet it never fails to captivate the viewers. That's the confidence they both had in their craft and in each other. The filmmaker maintains this rhythm until the writer's journey culminates beside the mortal remains of his mentor. George maintained this rhythm in all his films, even when they varied in genre. The bold filmmaker had immense confidence in his actors, technicians, and himself. And that's what makes his films stay fresh even after years. [1]

  1. ↑ "KG George's 'Yathrayude Anthyam' is a starting point to embark on a serious cinema journey". OnManorama. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
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