''Parinamam'' (''The Change'') is a 2003 Indian

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-language film directed by P. Venu, starring

Nedumudi Venu Kesavan Venugopal (22 May 1948 – 11 October 2021), better known by his stage name Nedumudi Venu, was an Indian actor and screenwriter from Kerala, who predominantly worked in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 500 films, primarily in M ...

Madampu Kunjukuttan Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri (23 June 1941 − 11 May 2021), popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, was a Malayalam actor, author and screenplay writer. Background and personal life Kunjukuttan was born in Kiralur village of Thrissur Dist ...

and

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in the lead roles.

Plot

''Parinamam'' tackles the age old issue of loneliness and redundancy among the aged. Balakrishna Marar played by

, faces callous treatment from his family after his retirement. Parallel to his story is that of the mentally disturbed and lonely former judge Damodaran Nambeeshan played by

, who goes to Kashi in search of peace. There are five other senior citizens whose problems form the basis of the film. The story revolves around the lives of these characters, who lose everything they hold dear, feel rejected, and develop a feeling of being a burden on their respective families and society.

Cast

* Ashokan *

Ambika Mohan Ambika Mohan is an Indian actress known for her work in Malayalam cinema Malayalam cinema, also referred to as Mollywood, is a segment of Cinema of India, Indian cinema dedicated to producing films in the Malayalam, Malayalam language ...

* Archana Menon * Baby Nithya *

Madambu Kunjukuttan Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri (23 June 1941 − 11 May 2021), popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, was a Malayalam actor, author and screenplay writer. Background and personal life Kunjukuttan was born in Kiralur village of Thrissur Distr ...

* Ottappalam Pappan *

Ravi Menon Chalappurathu Raveendranatha Menon (1950 – 24 November 2007), popularly known as Ravi Menon, was a veteran Indian film actor who worked in Malayalam cinema. He was born in Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad in 1950. He graduated from the Film and T ...

* Shalu Menon * TP Madhavan

Awards and recognition

The film was shown in 2003 in the Malayalam Film Festival Dubai,

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, and the Indian Panorama section of the

International Film Festival of India The International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded in 1952, is an annual film festival currently held in Goa, on the western coast of India. The festival aims at providing a common platform for the cinemas of the world to project the excel ...

. In 2005, the film won the Best Screenplay Award at Ashdod International Film Festival held in Israel. In the year 2012-13 ''Parinamam'' was one of the film NFDC India released under the brand ''Cinemas of India'' along with highly acclaimed title, ''

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'' by

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and ''

Train to Pakistan ''Train to Pakistan'' is a historical novel by writer Khushwant Singh, published in 1956. It recounts the Partition of India in August 1947 through the perspective of Mano Majra, a fictional border village. Instead of depicting the Partition ...

'' by

Pamela Rooks Pamela Rooks (28 February 1958 – 1 October 2010) was an Indian film director and screenwriter, most known for the film, '' Train to Pakistan'' (1998) set in Partition of India and based on Khushwant Singh's novel; it was screened at several ...

. ''Parinamam'' has been recently showcased in the Indian Film Festival in Budapest (7–12 February 2014), celebrating the 100 years of

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and was also the first Malayalam film to be shown in Hungary with Hungarian sub-titles. ''Parinamam'' has been showcased in ''The XXX International Festival Sarajevo'', celebrating the 30th anniversary of ''Sarajevo Winter 2014'' in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (7 February – 21 March 2014), held under the motto ''Peace, Art, Freedom''.

References

External links

* 2003 films 2000s Malayalam-language films Films directed by P. Venu Films scored by Johnson {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub