Naaraayam | |
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Directed by | Sasi Shanker |
Starring | Murali Urvashi Jagadish Kalpana |
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Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Narayam is a 1993 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by Sasi Sankar and stars Murali and Urvashi in lead roles.[1][2][3] At 41st National Film Awards, it won the award for Best Film on Other Social Issues.
Plot
[edit]Gayathri, born into an impoverished Hindu Namboothiri family in Palakkad, takes up the post of teaching Arabic in a school in Kozhikode. There she is supported in her decision by writer and social activist Shekharan, a widower with an only child, and the manager of the school, Hajiyar. The prospect of a Hindu woman teaching Arabic to Muslim students leads to communal problems, mainly led by three people: Menon who wants to take over the school management, Hajiyar's son-in-law - Azeez - who happened to take a bribe for appointing a Muslim as an Arabic teacher at the school, and the shrewd politician - Chelakkadan - who is waiting for an opportunity to unleash a communal riot and thereby reap electoral votes.
Cast
[edit]- Urvashi as Gayathri
- Murali as Shekharan
- Kalpana
- Prathapachandran as Menon
- Vijayaraghavan as Azeez
- Aboobacker
- Jagadish
- Kuthiravattam Pappu
- M. R. Gopakumar as Damodharan Namboothiri
- M. S. Thripunithura as Iyer
- Mamukkoya
- N. F. Varghese as Chelakkadan
- Santha Devi
- Santhakumari
- V. K. Sreeraman as Hajiyar
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