SYNOPSICS
Gulmohar (2008) is a Malayalam movie. Jayaraaj has directed this movie. Ranjith,Siddique,Jagadish,Augustine are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Gulmohar (2008) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Induchoodan (Ranjith) is the head master of a school. His family consists of his wife Chithra(Meera Vasudev), a son, a daughter and his mother-in-law(Kaviyoor Ponnamma). A friend from past, Harikrishnan(Siddique) visits Induchoodan. It is revealed that Induchoodan was a naxalite in the past and was imprisoned for six years. This triggers flashback to 20 years back. Induchoodan is a guest lecturer in a college. He is a revolutionary who dreams equality and justice and is willing to take up arms against injustice. Induchoodan and his group of six including Harikrishnan,Kuriakose(Nishanth Sagar), Rasheed (Meghanadhan)and Kariyathan(I. M. Vijayan) start an operation named 'Operation April' aimed at eliminating those who exploit the tribal people and rape tribal women. They plan to kill Chacko Muthallali, an estate owner who has bad taste towards women. Induchoodan gets caught and is sentenced to imprisonment. After six years he comes out of jail. The movie talks about the rest of the life...
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Gulmohar (2008) Reviews
Gulmohar is in a league of its own
Excerpts from Rediff.com (Paresh C Palicha) review: 'Once a revolutionary, always a revolutionary' should have been the tagline of Jayaraj's much talked about new Malayalam film Gulmohar. The acting debut of writer-director Ranjith has added to the curiosity value of this endeavour. Scripted by Didi Damodaran (daughter of T Damodaran, the hit script writer of yester years) Gulmohar tells the story of a group of friends who were revolutionaries in their younger days. The tale is told from the point of view of Induchoodan (Ranjith), who now is settled as school teacher with his wife, two kids and mother-in-law. As Induchoodan jogs down the memory lane, we get glimpse of their adventurous existence mostly lived on the edge as they took on the establishment and fought for the voiceless. The script as such is packed with lot of layering. The current generation ridicules the suffering and the sacrifices their elders made to make the world a better place. Their relatives never empathised or appreciated the zeal with which they followed their heart's calling or even their sense of justice. Induchoodan was an orphan (maybe it is used as a tool to justify why he is moved by the plight of others, as conveyed in a scene in the beginning where he tackles a complaint against an orphaned boy in the school) with only an elder sister to call his own. A person with a creative bent of mind, he uses his writing skills to propagate his ideas on revolution. We fear that Induchoodan's character may go overboard any moment as any conventional multi-talented hero's would. But it is discreetly held back at the script level itself. The narrative moves from the past to the present, giving us the story of Induchoodan's past and how his present is made. Ranjith makes us feel that the part was written with him in the mind. He gives the impression that he has rehearsed well for the part. Debutant Neenu Mathew is the other performance that impresses us. Technically too, Gulmohar is in a league of its own, helping Jayaraj to bounce back in form.