ORE KADAL – A synopsis

In Ore Kadal (The Sea Within), Shyamaprasad's third film, he continues to explore the intricacies of human relationships, once again employing an evocative style and imagery that transcend realism, whose delicate nuances and minimalism have been likened to chamber music. While Agnisakshi (1998) deals with the strained marital relationship of a Brahmin couple against the charged background of social reform and the Independence struggle, Akale (2004) depicts an Anglo-Indian family whose members keep failing to understand or communicate with one another.

Ore Kadal is the sensitive study of Deepti, a middle class housewife, who is irresistibly drawn to a radical intellectual, Nathan. As the affair grows in passion and intensity, Deepti's mounting sense of guilt pushes her towards mental instability. Her husband and children are caught unawares in her emotional conflict and her return to sanity only adds to her inner torment. Destiny had brought them together, searing passion would tear them apart.

Based on a classical Bengali novel, Ore Kadal is set in an India that is moving rapidly towards globalization – a background where socio-cultural changes are overturning age-old value systems of the middle class so swiftly that the dividing lines between right and wrong, loyalty and betrayal, honesty and deceit, grow increasingly blurred, trapping the two protagonists in a limbo of self-torture they must live with.

Outstanding performances by two of Kerala's ace actors, Mammootty and Meera Jasmine, and Ouseppachan's evocative musical score contribute richly to the power of this poignant film. Ore Kadal was shot mostly in Chennai in the month of March 2007.

Expected time of release : 3rd week of August

Credits :

Cast Mammooty, Meera Jasmine, Narain, Remya Krishnan
Cinematography Azhagappan
Editing Vinod Sukumaran
Music Ouseppachan
Editing Sreekar Prasad
Lyrics Girish Puthenchery
Costumes Cuckoo Parameswaran

Produced by Vindhyan for Rasika Entertainments
Released by Emil & Eric Digital

BOKSHU - The Myth

The mystery of the missing Metcalf. An adventurous daughter in search of her dead father. Stranded in a strange land, stalked by the Bloodthirsty Bokshu. A stone temple priest bathing naked with the goddess of desire. The eternal war between lust and loyalty. Bodies falling like dry leaves in autumn, with no sign of the brutal killer. Animal genius but do animals lurk under human skin? A journey through Jaled in search of the truth.

Is it the truth or is it an illusion? Is there a thin line between fact and fiction? Is myth of any consequence? How far will the daughter go to save her father? Is there an end or is it the beginning?

All the ingredients for a psychological suspense thriller, developed by Shyama Prasad, Richard Stanley and Sashi Warrier from the original novel by Ganga Prasad Vimal.

Executive Producer Dr. M P S Prasad and Director Shyama Prasad with the extremely talented international cast and crew have rendered this myth of the Bokshu into a blockbuster movie. From the 500-year-old ruins of Hampi, to the snow peaks of the Himalayas, to the crystal waterfalls of Shivanasamudra and monumental stone temples across the Indian subcontinent, this film is rich in visual content with a plot that grips you throughout.

Cast
Stephen Berkoff,David Millbern, Heather Prete, Irfan Khan
Nandana Sen, Harish Patel, Vineeth,Mita Vasisht Ashok Mandanna

Set against the background of superstition and sorcery, many socio-religious factors of the Moslem life in the Malabar village (Kerala, South India) where little Kuttimon lives, operate as the members of Kuttimon’s family work out their destinies.

With his acute and sensitive perception of people, events and the natural world, Kuttimon understands the significance of the happenings around him only partially. But being a child who has been nurtured on the tales of spirits and snakes and their power over human beings, Kuttimon cannot escape being lured by them.

Cast
Abhilash, Jamin Mayin, Rajesh Hebbar, Tom George, Sainudeen
Padmanabhan Thampi, Yusaf Haji, Sudha Suresh, Santhini Kalidas

Written & Directed by Shyamaprasad
Story by N.P.Mohammed
Director of Photography Shamdut
Editing Vinod Sukumaran
Sound Design C.R.Chandran
Art Director Rajagopal
Produced by
Enlight –Shyamaprasad Productions for Doordarshan - 2003