Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
What is Freedom?
Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.
47th Venice International Film Festival 1990
Cast: Mammootty, Murali, Ravi Vallathol, Thilakan, Sreenath, Karamana Janardanan Nair, M R Gopakumar, K. P. A. C. Azeez, Babu Namboothiri, Jagannatha Varma, KPAC Lalitha, Vembayam Thampi, B K Nair
Writers: Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Screenplay), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (Novel)
Cinematographer: Mankada Ravi Varma
Editor: M. Mani
Sound Designer: N Harikumar
Composer: Vijaya Bhaskar
Producer: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Production: Adoor Gopalakrishnan Productions
