Anandabhadram

Anandabhadram Malayalam is a 2005 Malayalam fantasythriller film based on the novel of the same name by Sunil Parameswaran. The film is the debut Malayalam film venture of director Santosh Sivan and actress Riya Sen. The story concerns ghosts, spirits, and black magic.

In the ancient village of Shivapuram, little Ananthan hears a tale from his mother, Gayathri Revathi. She tells him that his family comes from a line of powerful magicians, and they are responsible for protecting nagamanikyam, a jewel on a serpents head. The jewel, she narrates, lies in a secret place in the house guarded by snakes, including a tiny snake called Kunjootan.Years later, obeying the wishes of his dead mother, Ananthan Prithviraj Sukumaran returns to his ancestral village to light the lamps at Shivakavu, a dark and mysterious temple of Shiva. On his way home he meets the comical Maravi Mathai Cochin Haneefa on the train. The local black magician Digambaran Manoj K Jayan opposes the lighting of the lamps on the grounds of local superstitions in order get his hands on the nagamanikyam. Disbeliever Ananthan meets the supernatural for the first time in his life. ........

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