Parudeesa

Parudeesa English Paradise is a 2012 Malayalamlanguage Indian feature film written by Vinu Abraham and directed by national awardwinning filmmaker R. Sarath. The film stars Sreenivasan, Thampy Antony and Swetha Menon in the lead roles. Like in his previous films, Sarath interweaves a complex theme in Parudeesathat of conflict of belief, the perpetual disagreement between orthodox and unorthodox paths of religion. The film, set against the backdrop of a remote hillside hamlet, unravels the story of a priest and a verger. While the priest is still lost in the labyrinth of orthodoxy, verger has a very liberated outlook about religion, or rather life in general. The film captures the quintessential conflict flickered by the situation. Sreenivasan plays the priest while Thampy Antony appears as the verger and Swetha Menon plays the role of a cook at the nearby convent. Noted comedian and actor Jagathy Sreekumar plays another fulllength character, Parudeesa being the last film he completed before the accident. The film released onOctober 2012 and met with a mixed reaction. Reviews among major critics and parallel movie buffs have been positive but most online critics of mainstream cinema have given the film negative reviews.

Parudeesa tells the story of a Catholic parish in a hillside village in Kerala. Set in two milieus Kerala of the sixties and seventies and that of the eighties and nineties the film unfolds through the conflict of ideals between Father Aanjalithanam Sreenivasan, an orthodox priest, who is the last word in the parish, and a firebrand verger named Deacon Jose Thampy Antony, who believes that Christ was the original revolutionary. Both of them believe that their way to God is the true path, the only path.As he sets out to bring a change in society, increasingly Jose finds himself facing opposition at every turn, and thats not only from Father Aanjalithanam but from within the parish and the extended village community too. The catalyst for the conflict is feisty Theresia Swetha Menon, an umarried maid who works in the kitchen of a nearby convent. Jagathy Sreekumar also has an important role in the film, as the powerful secretary of the church committee. ........

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