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Unforgettable Venuchettan

Thampu / Thampu

1978 Malayalam
India
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Directors: G Aravindan
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Synopsis
Besides a long glittering river, some men raise a pole. A tent balloons up. Where there was wide sand and the sound of water lapping, there is now a truck, chairs, hoops, stools, ropes, goats, a lioness, a pair of fat girls, some bicycles, and an old man with a philosopher's dignity, putting on white paste. Across a dirt road, the circus truck comes to a village. The tent goes up. Schoolboys run to the tent. Village women come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop across a tightrope. A lion leaps from the edge of one stool - across darkness - onto another stool. A gap-toothed old woman gazes at a goat on a tight rope; her eyes are wide with curiosity. For three days the circus makes small ripples in the life of this village. Municipal permits are required. At a toddy shop, a soldier befriends the circus strongman; a pump attendant sits on a rock each day watching a village girl bathe and dry her hair. The dwarf brings back to the circus a watermelon larger than his head.
Details of Cast
Nedumudi Venu, Bharath Gopi, Jalaja
Details of Crew
DoP -Shaji N KarunEditors -Rameshan, SelvanathanMusic -M G Radhakrishnan
Producer Details
K Ravindran Nair
Writer Details
G Aravindan
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Thampu
Thampu
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