Vinod (Master Raghu) and Anitha (Devi) are classmates in school and have their own private problems. Vinod's stepmother wants to seduce him, and Anitha is an illegitimate child that her mother never wanted. On a rainy day they take shelter in a train wagon, which starts moving before they could get out and stops next in a forest area a long way away from home. There, they find a couple of recluses - a widow and an ex-army officer - living their own lives and willing to accept them. As they were in early puberty they live like normal children. But as puberty stage starts, both experiences lust over each other. The widow accepts them as foster children and perform their marriage, but fate intervenes as an incurable disease for Anitha.
Direction
Sasi treats child lust like inevitable weather—no judgment, just doom.
Cinematography
The train wagon as escape womb, the forest as Eden rotting.
Director
I V Sasi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
I.V. Sasi was Malayalam cinema's provocateur king; Ina got slapped with an 'A' certificate and moral panic despite zero explicit content. The film argues repression causes more harm than early sexual awareness.
Master Raghu (Vinod) retired from acting entirely after this—some say the role's intensity burned him out at age 14.
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