A perfect marriage, a sudden suicide, and a journalist digging up what the dead wanted buried.
Saleena is happily married to Mathew , a wealthy estate owner. Inexplicably she commits suicide much to the shock of Mathew. He firmly believes that there existed no reason for her to do the act and asks his journalist friend Balu to investigate why. Balu, who was also close to Saleena, tries to piece together clue from her past to figure out the answer.
Acting
Suparna Anand's Saleena haunts every frame she's not in.
Direction
Pavithran builds dread through estate mist and withheld glances.
Writing
M.T. Vasudevan Nair adapts with surgical precision.
Director
V. K. Pavithran
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of Malayalam cinema's definitive 'estate noir' films, capturing the psychological isolation of Kerala's plantation elite in the late 80s.
Based on Daphne du Maurier's 'My Cousin Rachel,' but M.T. Vasudevan Nair's adaptation transplants the ambiguity into specifically Keralan anxieties about reputation and female sexuality.
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