Vasthuhara

Vasthuhara Malayalam English The Dispossessed is a Malayalam social film by the late G. Aravindan which looks into the lives of partition refugees from East Bengal to West Bengal. At a larger level, its the universal story of refugees.

Aravindan takes us closer into the life of a refugee when Venu realizes that the sorrow of one refugee family is his own. One day, an old lady, Arthi Panicker Neelanjana Mitra comes to meet Venu in his lodge. She speaks broken Malayalam which surprises Venu. Shes a refugee from East Bengal. She desperately wants to move out of the wretched Calcutta for a better future of her children, a daughter whos completed MA but never appeared of the examination and a son about whom shes very sad. Her daughter Damayanti Neena Gupta quit studies and is a communist revolutionary on parole. Venu realizes that they are no one but his own uncles family, his uncle Kunjunni Panicker whom he admired so much, a poet and revolutionary who left home long back probably to join Boses INA when Venu was a child.Venu visits home in Kerala, a typical matrilineal nair household, to discuss about his chance meeting with Kunjunni uncles family and also to secure their rightful share for them. Venus mother has no sympathies for Arthi Panicker and her kids. Kunjunni uncles land is in possession of Venus aunt Bhavani Padmini who, as a beautiful teenager had secret affairs with Kunjunni and his brother Anandan. Venu remembers his childhood days where he used to run secret errands for a young Bhavani played by Shobana. Aunt Bhavani is more sympathetic towards Arthi. Having never met the wife and children of the man she once loved, shes curious about them. She agrees to give them the land or money, whatever is convenient to them. One gets the impression that at the late time of her life Bhavani is leading a lonely, guiltridden life, having destroyed the lives of both the brothers she married Anandan who commits suicide, probably due to unhappy marriage. ........

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