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Oru Pennum Randaanum - 2008 A sequel to Adoor’s earlier film Naalu Pennungal, Oru Pennum Randaanum too is based on Thakazhi Shivasankara Pillai’s short stories. This film too consists of four independent chapters, bound by a recurring theme of crime, the stories being set in the 1940s in the Princely State of Travancore.
The first story ‘The Thief’ is about Kunjunni, nicknamed ‘Son of a Thief’, who fervently yearns to reform his father who is a thief. In the second story ‘The Police’ Head Constable Pillai and his cunning colleague Mathu is entrusted to solve a case of theft in a rich merchant’s shop. These Police Officers who are suspected to have traced the culprit and shared the loot with him, to save their skin colludes to frame a rickshaw-puller in the burglary case, of which he is innocent. ‘Two Men and a Woman’ is the story of Krishnankutty, a university student, who is forced to make a choice between a servant girl with whom he has an affair and the daughter of the head of his joint family with whom he is under obligation to marry. The fourth episode ‘One Woman, Two Men’, is the story of two men, one elderly and the other middle aged, who fights over a bewitching woman who doesn’t reveal her preferences.
Direction & Screenplay: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
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