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Sandarbham (1984)

Sandarbham poster
Original title
സന്ദർഭം
Directed by
Joshiy
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 19m
Rated
U
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A happy family falls into relationship troubles. The story follows a husband, wife, and their young daughter as things go wrong.

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What happens

Sandarbham is a 1984 Malayalam film directed by Joshiy, written by Cochin Haneefa, screenplay by Kaloor Dennis, and starring Mammootty, Sukumaran, Saritha, Seema, P. K. Abraham, K. P. A. C. Sunny and Unni Mary. The film is a typical tear-jerker family-drama tragedy of the 1980s. Films of this genre typically featured a happy family in the beginning, with a well placed husband-cum-father, a young mother and a girl child of the age of 3 or 4. In the end, the family gets into a whirlpool of relationship problems. The film was remade in Tamil as Paadatha Thenikkal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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