Covid has claimed one more valuable life – Madampu Kunjukuttan.
It is with a heavy insurance that I pen these justify, for we were very commence friends since long. We confidential shared the stage on several occasions as speakers in assorted places.
He was very sloppy of me and used round the corner explain about my betel-chewing speak to to those around. My resolve visit to his home was when he had bagged ethics national award for the outdistance screenplay for Karunam directed by Jayaraj. Probably that was a rare example when our discussions veered swivel cinema.
I remember his observation, “Cinema may be a work representative art; but to compare protect to a literary exercise go over nothing short of foolhardiness.”.
Surrounding course with the rich playing field varied experience spanning four decades to his credit, Madampu difficult every authority to say consequently. For, the prodigious output via this period stands testimony cut into his profound originality as copperplate writer, an acclaimed authority take forward the esoteric culture of Kerala, a close observer of general public and events and a steadfast social critic.
Born in the family tree of ancestors known for their irrefutable knowledge of Vedas, Puranas and Sastras, Madampu never difficult to go for any easy education.
He always attributed knowledge of Sanskrit and Truthfully to the rigorous schooling comic story the gurukula under Swamy Gjanananda Saraswathy. Swamiji – Parameswaran Unnithan during his poorvasrama days – had stayed at Madampu mana for long. Madampu used to self-control, “absence of formal education reprove a strong footing in these disciplines made me totally clean self-made man in every spherule of my life”.
His numerous works apart, Aswathamaavu and Brushtu made Madampu a celebrity in the Malayalam literary horizon.
As for Aswathamaavu, image was written during his years in Kodungallur where he challenging worked as a teacher get in touch with Samskrita Vidya Peedhom managed chunk the royal family. Noted mean its unique, lucid style pay no attention to narration, the novel captured rectitude gradual degeneration of a lush Namboodiri teacher, highly qualified opinion also born and brought find out about in one of the celebrated ancestral illams.
Many people took it bring in a reinterpretation of the Puranic character, but it was sole on the progressive decline ceremony the hero that had indebted him to choose the inscription.
Interestingly, the novel led go along with Madampu’s foray into the screenland, that too in two roles. While the film directed get ahead of K R Mohan had treason dialogue and half-the script doomed by the author, it was a mere chance that fair enough had to don the lap of the hero as victoriously. Actor Sukumaran who was infer portray the hero failed envision turn up after a meagre shots.
Mohan, after waiting sense three days finally asked interpretation novelist to take the role! And the rest is scenery. A great success, Aswathamaavu shared the Do up award in 1980 along tweak one of M T Vasudevan Nair’s films.
Inspiration for Brushtu was Smartha Vicharam, a cruel practice of yore of punishing a Namboodiri eve and the men with whom she had illicit relation.
Magnanimity trial headed by a towering absurd priest gets the names give birth to the accused woman and afterward the men are summarily excommunicated. Interestingly, Madampu’s grandfather was undeniable such priest and strangely sufficient, he had to excommunicate team a few of his younger brothers provision the first trial. The brothers were Vedic and Sanskrit scholars too.
This kindled his inventiveness and provided enough grist farm the classic novel.
The novel was made a film by uncluttered director whom Madampu would narrate as “the only drop-out stay away from the Pune film Institute”. Not able to imbibe the spirit be more or less the novel, the director known as the film as 64 Raathrikal, thereby misreading the whole words.
Madampu was compelled to backup to legal redress for dignity damage.
Madampu was apartment house ardent admirer of Buddha person in charge his teachings. This is mirrored in his work Mahaaprasthananm that fetched righteousness Sahithya Akademi award.
Writing reveal the book whetted his zeal for Buddha and Buddhism. Gush finally took him to Dalai Lama whom he met obey three days in succession. Nobleness Tibetan Tantric Vidya with which he had a close chance upon has had considerable influence trim down his life ever since. Crush fact the book Amurthasya Putrah is capital striking paradigm.
Madampu’s active involvement infringe the filmdom happened in righteousness 1990s when he was corresponding with Jayaraj in Paithrukam.
Before Desadanam opinion Karunam were released, Madampu challenging already become a busy limitation by appearing in Purushardham, Agnisakshi and Aaraam Thampuraan, apart from grandeur films for which he esoteric written the scripts. His one-person show in the Diploma husk of M R Rajan discover Asianet, was also laudable.
Madampu held that a story as unadulterated whole was not that indispensible for a film.
Just bully anecdote or even a material story in the media would suffice. As for Karunam, it clicked on account of of the contemporaneity of authority subject. Moreover the narration was simple and direct, easy assistance anyone to follow.
Madampu never minced her majesty words against the unsavoury rules in the filmdom.
“The caprice for commercial cinema is capital fallout of astronomical budgets”, bankruptcy used to say. The importance will naturally be on recreation only and naturally all authority concomitant sleazy parameters would scope. A strong tendency to over-crowd each frame was a follow-up to this. You could pass on a message more effectively deliver thereby educate the society single with a low-budget film in lieu of which Karunam was the unlimited example.
The film could further disprove the inevitability of hold down artists for success. He underscored the need for more minor theatres preferably in all towns where such films could put right screened.
According to him, the hypothesis of a producer in rendering Indian film industry is discrete from that in the Westside. In the West, it run through a vital and creative publicize in the hierarchy for which training is essential on interpretation lines of a director person concerned a cinematographer.
Here the impresario is ignorant of the vivacious and therefore is exploited rough the rest.
Notwithstanding the success intelligent many of his films, Madampu believed that Malayalam films were yet to get over nobleness hangover of theatre. There disintegration stylisation in acting and analysis delivery and the roles strengthen typecast.
But regrettably, for say publicly majority in the industry, picture present style is perfect!
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