Thangam (Srividya) plunges the ashes of her foster brother Unni (Rajit Kapoor) in the Ganga and finds herself awash with memories. Memories of growing up as a child born out of a Sambandham in a Namboodari illam. Thangam is enthralled with Devaki (Shobana), Unni's wife through whose eyes she realizes the suffering of Namboodari women. The community still holding on to the arcane traditions of yester year as the world around it changes. The film is set during the twilight of India's dependence on the British and when the caste system still reared its ugly hood. A film drenched in melancholy that only a Malayali of the ilk of Shyamaprasad could have directed and one only the Kerala pysche would have appreciated.
Rating: * * *
