''Ozhivukaalam'' is a 1985 Indian

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-language film, written by

P. Padmarajan P. Padmarajan (23 May 1945 – 23 January 1991) was an Indian film maker, screenwriter and author who was known for his works in Malayalam literature and Malayalam cinema. He was the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, a ...

, directed by Bharathan and produced by P. V. Gangadharan. The film stars Prem Nazir,

Srividya Srividya (24 July 1953 – 19 October 2006), also known as Sreevidya, was an Indian actress best known for her work predominantly in Malayalam and Tamil films, along with few Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. In a career spanning for 40 years, ...

, Rohini and Menaka. The film has musical score by

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Plot

Chinnu returns to her home for vacation, to her widowed mother. Her mother, Nirmala, has only Nandini as a companion when Chinnu goes to Bangalore for her studies. Chinnu lost her father twelve years ago and on thinking that her mother will be all alone once she leaves for higher studies, Chinnu advises her mother to remarry someone. Nirmala informs Chinnu that it is Das. Chinnu will feel a sudden discomfort on hearing that name but Nirmala feels very elated. She tells Chinnu that Das uncle, her cousin, will be visiting them. The scene then shifts to the past where it is shown that Nirmala and Das are in love and they make love. Nirmala's father happen to see this and throws his nephew, Das, and his mother out of the family house because he felt that his daughter falling in love with a jobless man like Das would mean the end for her. He then has Nirmala marry Ramachandran, a rich man. After several years, Nirmala and Das meet again at Coorg where Nirmala was staying with her husband, Ramachandran and baby Chinnu. Das reveals to her that he has a managerial job now and he chose a posting at Coorg to see her. Ramachandran who is a chronic drunkard feels that something is going on between Nirmala and Das and constantly harasses them by creating stories about them. Nirmala suffers everything in silence. The scene then shifts to the present where Das arrives and considers Chinnu like his own daughter. Nirmala and Das had planned to marry and Nirmala asks for Chinnu's opinion which was negative. On enquiring the reason Chinnu just slips away by rude talking and plans to go back to Bangalore. Nirmala asks her to wait for just one more day as it is her father's death anniversary, to which she agrees. On this day she suddenly breaks and says that Das killed her father by pushing him out a boat in which they three travelled together. She had concealed this for years to protect her mother and she hates Das for this. Nirmala questions Das and he admits to the deed. Nirmala expels him from the house and after he leaves she tells Chinnu that Das is her real father and she was pregnant with Chinnu before her marriage to Ramachandran, whom she married only due to her father's insistence.

Cast

* Prem Nazir as Das *

as Nirmala * Rohini as Chinnu *

Jalaja Jalaja is an Indian actress in Malayalam films who was active during the 1970s and 1980s. She had won Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Award for Best Actress in 1981 for the movie Venal directed by Lenin Rajendran. Perso ...

as Nandini *

Karamana Janardanan Nair Karamana Janardanan Nair (25 July 1936 – 24 April 2000) was a Malayalam film actor, who was active during the 1980s and 1990s. He was especially known for his character roles. He won wide acclaim especially for the role of the protagonis ...

as Ramachandran *

Kottayam Shantha Kottayam Santha was an Indian actress and dubbing artist best known for her work in Malayalam cinema. She has acted in more than 300 films. She had also acted in several TV serials like Valayam, Krishnakripasagaram etc. She dubbed for almost ...

as Das's mother *Bhaskara Kurup as Nirmala's father *Pratheesh as Surendran *

K. T. C. Abdullah K.T.C. Abdullah or Abdullah hails from Palayam, Kozhikode, Kerala, British India. Born in 1936. He was a veteran actor on stage and performed in a few notable Malayalam films. He died on 17 November 2018 at Kozhikode, Kerala, India. He made h ...

*Sreekutti Bharathan as Young Chinnu *Abdullah * P. V. Gangadharan

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

with lyrics by

K. Jayakumar K. Jayakumar (born 6 October 1952) is an Indian civil servant, poet, and author. He is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Kerala who retired as the Chief Secretary of the Government of Kerala. He has also worked as lyricist, ...

References

External links

* {{Bharathan 1985 films 1980s Malayalam-language films