Mathilukal
1990, Film, 120 min, Drama, Romance, Malayalam, India, MoviePedia score 70
What is Freedom?
Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.
Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Cast
- Mammootty as Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
- Thilakan as Jail Warder
- Karamana Janardanan Nair as Political leader
- Murali as Basheer's classmate
- Sreenath as Brother Jailor
- Ravi Vallathol as Razzaq
- Jagannatha Varma as Judge
- Babu Namboothiri as Trade union leader
- B.K. Nair as Ammavan old convict
- Azeez as Police constable
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