Oridam (2005)

Original title

ഒരിടം

Directed by

Pradeep Nair

Country

India

Runtime

1h 20m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A sex worker searches for a place in a society that uses and discards her. She dreams of leaving the flesh trade for a decent life while struggling with pain and questions of right and wrong.

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What happens

Oridam is a 2005 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Pradeep Nair, starring Vishnu and Geethu Mohandas in the lead roles. Oridam movie is a quest of a sex worker to find a place for herself in the society. The very same society, which uses and throws her. The reason for a woman being thrown into the street could be the same, anywhere in the world. The pains, sufferings, dreams and the thoughts of a new life tormented her. She lived weighing herself between the right and the wrong. The sex worker (Geethu Mohandas) who doesn't have a name, nor does many of the other characters in the movie. The protagonists has a simple dream. A dream of leading a decent life, one that doesn't have anything to do with the flesh trade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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