A forgotten education minister fought for teachers when nobody cared. Kerala's history hits different.
A powerful story about underpaid teachers in 1950s Kerala leads Education Minister Joseph Mundassery to advocate for reform, sparking changes in teacher welfare despite initial legislative setbacks.
Acting
Babu Antony anchors with quiet dignity
Production
Period detail on a shoestring budget
Writing
Makes legislative procedure oddly compelling
Director
Rajeev Nath
Babu Antony
R Sreedharan Menon
Antony Thekkek
K Ramakrishna Menon
Manju Pillai
Meenakshi
Shankar Ramakrishnan
Shibu
Jagadish
Karunakaran
Madhupal
Pramod
Poojappura Radhakrishnan
Raghavan
Sanju Sivaram
Madhusudhanan Kurup
Balaji Sarma
Sugunan
Prem Kumar
Shashankan
Sethu Lakshmi
Sreedharan's Grandmother
Kaladi Jayan
Shekara Panikar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joseph Mundassery was real — poet, education minister, and architect of Kerala's 1957 Education Bill that triggered massive political controversy.
Director Rajeev Nath previously made arthouse films; this marked his shift to socially conscious commercial cinema with mixed results.
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