Pokkuveyil (1981)

Original title

പോക്കുവെയിൽ

Directed by

G. Aravindan

Genre

drama, music

Country

India

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film where music comes first. The director composed audio for flute and sarod then built the visuals around it without a script. It follows no conventional story just images shaped by the score.

dreamlikemeditativeabstractatmosphericmusicalslow-burncontemplativevisually lush

What happens

Pokkuveyil (transl. Twilight) is a 1982 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by G. Aravindan and produced by General Pictures' Raveendranathan Nair. The film stars Balachandran Chullikkad, Kalpana, and S. Satish Kumar. Aravindan recorded its audio first as a composition for the flute by Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and the sarod by Rajeev Taranath. The visuals were 'composed' according to musical notations without any script. Pokkuveyil won Aravindan the State Film Award for best director. The film stars Balachandran Chullikad, Kalpana, S. Satish Kumar, Kalabhavan Ansar, and Chavara V. P. Nair. The score was composed by Rajeev Taranath and Hariprasad Chaurasia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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