A woman in her fifties files a divorce petition against her seventy-one-year-old husband. Their son and an advocate try to find the reason behind it as they had been married for thirty years.
Acting
Mallika's Meenakshi — volcanic restraint, decades of rage in one glance.
Writing
Jeyamohan's script weaponizes silence; every unsaid word cuts deeper.
Direction
Madhupal frames patriarchal decay like archaeological excavation.
Director
Madhupal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on true stories from 1940s-50s Travancore, where matrilineal systems (marumakkathayam) were being systematically dismantled by patriarchal 'reforms.'
The dual-timeline structure mirrors how trauma works in Kerala families — present-day civility cracking to reveal historical violence.
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