

A wedding, a crash, and 154 minutes of Malayalam melodrama that'll wreck you.
Ahmed marry Subaida. On the way back home, Ahmed meets an accident and becomes unconscious.
Acting
Ambika Sukumaran's devastating descent from bride to outcast.
Direction
M. S. Mani's unflinching gaze at Kerala's moral hypocrisy.
Director
M. S. Mani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of early Malayalam cinema's rare serious treatments of Muslim social life, predating the industry's later religious stereotyping.
Ambika Sukumaran was reportedly so affected by the role she avoided similar 'suffering woman' parts for years. The 154-minute runtime was considered punishingly long for 1965.