''Kadhavaseshan'' ( en, The Deceased) is a 2004 Malayalam mystery drama film written and directed by

T. V. Chandran T. V. Chandran (born 23 November 1950) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and actor, predominantly working in Malayalam cinema. Born in a Malayali family in Telicherry, Chandran worked as a Reserve Bank of India employee before entering ...

, starring Dileep and Jyothirmayi in the lead roles. Veteran Bengali actress Gita Dey made a special appearance. It was the first movie in the

2002 Gujarat Riots The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, which caused the deaths of 58 Hin ...

trilogy by the director, the second one being Vilapangalkkappuram and the third and final one being Bhoomiyude Avakashikal. The narratives of all these films begin on the same day, 28 February 2002, that is, on the day after the Godhra train burning in Gujarat. The film was released on November 11 on the Eve of Diwali.

Plot

Gopinathan Menon ( Dileep), an engineer, is found dead in his flat. Renuka ( Jyothirmayi), his fiancee, wants to know the cause of his death. Hence, she decides to investigate the case, unravelling his last days through the perspective of people he interacted with. Finally she understands that Gopi committed suicide out of the shame of being alive in such a merciless society.

Cast

* Dileep as Gopinathan Menon Gopi * Jyothirmayi as Renuka *Pandiarajan as Kathavarayan *Vijayaraghavan (actor), Vijayaraghavan as Janardhanan *Cochin Haneefa as S.I. Shaji *Janardhanan (actor), Janardanan as Veerabhadran Nair/Kuttammavan *Salim Kumar as Renuka's brother-in-law *Indrans as Thief Thorappan Vasu *Bindu Panikkar as Lathika, Gopi's sister * Gita Dey as old Bengali lady *Ambika Mohan as Renuka's mother *Nithya Das as Sreedevi *Stephy Leon as Nazeem *Shivaji (Malayalam actor), Shivaji *Lekshmi Krishnamoorthy as Gopi's mother *Irshad (actor), Irshad as Bhadran, Gopi's colleague *Nisha Sarang as Police Inspector's wife *Babu Annur *Manikandan Pattambi *Vijayan Peringode *Ashok Vishwanathan *Kalabhavan Prajod

Accolades

Music

The film's soundtrack album and score was composed by music director M Jayachandran. The Malayalam lyrics on the album were penned by writers Gireesh Puthanchery and the Gujarati lyrics by Gauhar Raza.

References

External links

* {{T. V. Chandran 2004 films 2000s Malayalam-language films Films scored by M. Jayachandran Films directed by T. V. Chandran 2004 drama films Indian nonlinear narrative films