Streetlight (2012)

Streetlight Malayalam Srlai is a Malayalam film written and directed by V.R.Sankar The film was shot entirely on the Kerala with a cast that includes Aparna Nair, Irshad actor, Krishnan Balakrishnan and Maya Viswanath. The story of the movie is a free adaptation of the Malayalam novel written by Sankar named Oru Pennum Parayathathu the story never told by a woman and narrates the life of a prostitute who fights against the corrupt and malignant sociopolitical environment of the society Kerala and finally makes her way successfully in to a committed social worker. Her life is a journey from social alienation and stigma in to transformed and socially concerned person who becomes a godsend for the large group of orphaned children.

Later pressure from all sides drags her into prostitution. She adopts a minor girl raped and abandoned by some unknown persons. As she finds out the bitter truth of being an Aids patient, she decides to entrust the child to an orphanage and gets ready to face death. Her old friend Murukan seeks to sleep with her. But she backs out and forbids him, so as not to get him infected with the deadly disease. Her life takes a miraculous turn as she gives up the thought of suicide and takes up the role of a brave hearted and committed social worker. Adopting many street children and pioneering womens and childrens welfare, she carves out her own place in the society.Her autobiography wins the state award for literature. And the Mother Theresa award for the best social worker is given to her. ........

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