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, produced and directed by Sathish Kalathil under the banner of The People's Films. The story was written by Sujith Aalungal and describes the warm relationship between a village man and an artist (painter) from the city. The film was shot entirely on a mobile phone camera,

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Music edition (8gb internal memory with 5

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) mobile phone was entirely used without assistance of traditional or outside camera lenses to film.

Plot

Mohan, an art teacher at a city college, discovers the artistic talent of Sadanandan, an ordinary villager. Mohan instructs him in various modern methods of painting and buys the paintings produced by Sadanandan, which, although more proficient than that of most amateurs, were nevertheless beyond the expectations of Mohan. Sadanandan is totally unaware that Mohan is unscrupulously making use of his talent for his own benefit. Jalachhayam describes how Sadanandan survives the moment that he realises that Mohan, a revered figure to Sadanandan, is exploiting him.

Cast

*Baburaj Puthoor: as Sadanandan *Dr. B. Jayakrishnan: as Mohan *Prasanna Balan: as Geetha, wife of Mohan * Prof.K.B. Unnithan: as Panicker *Chitramohan: as Tom *Baby Nimisha: as Nimisha, daughter of Mohan *Baby Lakshmi: as Chinju, daughter of Sadanandan *Master Navin Krishna: as Kannan, son of Sadanandan And,

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film actress Kripa,

lyricist and poet

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cine-serial actress Remadevi are given guest appearance in the film. Other leading performers are N. P. K. Krishnan as Krishnan, Das Anjery as Dasan, Rukia Kechery as Kausalya, Saju Pulikkottil as Saju, Ajeesh M Vijayan as Ajeesh.

Production

The acclaimed film director P. Ramdas ( Director of Newspaper Boy) had been Switched-on the film at Namboodiri Vidyalayam School, Thrissur on 22 November 2008 and shooting completed on 6 December 2009 with post-production completed in 2010. Jalachhayam, shot entirely on a

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had its theatrical premiere in Thrissur, Kerala, India on 6 June 2010 at Sree theatre and Mrs. Sindhu Lohithadas, wife of the late

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Malayalam film director, inaugurated and Prof. R. Bindu, the hon’ble mayor of

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presided over the Jalachhayam review ceremony at Hotel Elite International, Thrissur.

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, the hon’ble Revenue Minister of Kerala, T. K. Vasudevan, Malayalam film director, T. V. Chandramohan Ex-MLA, Prof.K.B. Unnithan, social activist, B. Asok Kumar, Asst. Engineer,

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, Joy M. Mannur, President,

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, V. R. Rajamohan bureau chief of

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