The human predicament was on the coronary heart of MT Vasudevan’s writing. He gently identified to human foibles and the way fragile relationships are within the face of patriarchal values and custom. You see quite a lot of that in Nirmalyam and Neelathamara. You see his biting criticism of the exodus of poor Malayalees to the Gulf, the then promised land in Vilkaanund Swapnangal.
The MT I found was by way of the films most satirically in IV Sasi movies like Alkootatil Thaniye, Aksharangal and Aroodam. He was by no means didactic. He shone a lightweight upon our frailties that form us and break us in turns. If Balan Ok Nair is a flawed patriarch in Alkootathil who selfishly thought for the perfect for his son, Mammootty was the flawed literary character who might by no means be slowed down by marriage in Aksharangal. In all these movies Seema performed the opposite lady written with the finesse and nuance that solely MT might have imagined. Identical for Vadakan Veera Gatha. He reimagined the story from the fallen hero’s Chanthu’s viewpoint and corrects just a few fallacies in regards to the fallen hero.
A author imagines and creates a world for us to inhabit. He helps us to determine his characters and creates a world by way of his empathy. We discover a little bit of ourselves in each character that he wrote. Of their power lies our power, of their weak point lies ours. One in every of his most brutal works is Sadayam. The ultimate scene is very chilling. Dying is typically the one hope he has to supply. MT Vasudevan Nair by no means held out false hope. He drew a world for you which ones was unremitting and typically even unsparing. Within the poetry of his phrases, his gaze was unflinching. He could have moved on gently to a different world however his phrases will proceed to remind us that the brutal and the attractive are two sides of the identical coin.
Go gently into the night time sir.
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