Nizhalkuthu

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Nizhalkuthu
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Directed by	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Produced by	Adoor Gopalakrishnan Joël Farges
Written by	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Starring	Oduvil Unnikrishnan Sukumari
Music by	Ilayaraja
Cinematography	Sunny Joseph Ravi Varma
Editing by	Ajith
Distributed by	Adoor Gopalakrishnan Productions Artcam International Les Films du Paradoxe
Release date(s)	7 September 2002
Running time	90 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam language
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Nizhalkuthu (English language:Shadow Kill; French language:Le Serviteur de Kali) is a 2002 Indian Malayalam language drama film directed and written by Adoor Gopalakrishnan starring Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Sukumari, Reeja, and Tara Kalyan. It premiered on 7 September 2002 at the Venice Film Festival in Italy.

1 Overview
2 Plot
3 Cast
4 Awards and recognitions
5 Images
6 External links

[edit] Overview

The title of Adoor's latest film Nizhalkuthu (Shadow Kill) refers to the story from the Mahabharata, where the Kauravas employ a witch hunter to kill the Pandavas. He carries out black magic, where the spirits of the Pandavas are exhorted into their images. These images, the symbolic shadows of the Pandavas are stabbed to kill the actual Pandavas. When the original target is unreachable, target its shadow.

The innocent man to be hanged

[edit] Plot

The story is set in the pre-independence time period, in the early-1940s. This was a time period when India still had British kings and queens, and a future as freedom fighters. Kaliappan is a hangman for the state of Travancore. He lives with his wife, son and daughter. His son is a freedom fighter, who has taken to Gandhian ways.The story slowly builds up to a hanging that is about to take place. The night before the hanging, Kaliappan comes to know that, the person that he is going to hang is innocent. what happens to that execution is the story.