Marthanda Varma (1933)

Original title

മാർത്താണ്ഡവർമ്മ

Directed by

P.V. Rao

Genre

silent film

Country

British Raj

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent film adaptation of a classic Malayalam novel. It tells a story of political intrigue and royal conflicts in the historical kingdom of Travancore.

historicalmelodramaticold-fashionedstatelystiffstagedsobermeandering

What happens

Marthanda Varma, also written Maarthandavarma, is a 1933 black and white Indian silent film directed by P. V. Rao, based on the 1891 Malayalam novel by C. V. Raman Pillai. This was the first film based on Malayalam literature and the next film of the Malayalam film industry after Vigathakumaran. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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