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Anantaram (Malayalam: അനന്തരം, transl. Thereafter), also known as Monologue, is a 1987 Indian Malayalam -language film produced, written and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It stars Mammootty, Ashokan and Shobhana in the lead. The film is structured like a monologue.
Adoor Gopalakrishnan is a genius, and this one film is perhaps all you need to convince yourselves of that. Uploaded in high quality with hard-coded English subtitles. To quote the great...
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ANANTARAM tells the story-or rather stories—of Ajayan (also known as Ajayakumar) a gentle and sensitive young man. And each story, told in the first person narrative, brings forth new events and relationships into focus as it unfolds.
Anantaram (Malayalam: അനന്തരം, transl. Thereafter), also known as Monologue, is a 1987 Indian Malayalam-language film produced, written and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It stars Mammootty, Ashokan and Shobhana in the lead. The film is structured like a monologue.
The film marks a major shift from the director’s previous Mukha Mukham (1984) which, despite its critical depiction of politics, retained Gopalakrishnan’s commitment to developing a tradition of Kerala melodrama. Anantaram is much more cynical, descending into a subjectivity bordering on the paranoid.
Feb 7, 2022 · In Anantaram the two versions are told in the first-person narrative by the same person which is rather new. The English title of the film is ‘Monologue’. It is in fact a double monologue and its structure can be called as “Double monologue/ narrative in the same first-person point of view”. Ashokan in Anantaram
The film which set a definitive standard for the use of unreliable narrator in Indian Cinema would probably be Anantaram or Monologue. Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Monologue is a cinematic masterpiece which is so simple yet so hard to decipher.
