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Diwakaran’s father Murugan Nair is deeply concerned about Nalini’s illness. He is apprehensive about his son’s long journeys. He believes modern medicines are incapable of curing Nalini. He looks for medicines and cure in astrology and witchcraft.
Diwakaran is greeted by all of these forces when he arrives home with his brand new images.,. by the innocence of the villagers and obstinacy of tradition.
The witch-doctor Aayancheri Kaimal, who arrives with a mute girl that can tell what’s past and predict the future, sounds the death-knell for the bioscope...
The exorcism of tradition over the pulse of modernity….
Since when did cinema restart its movements?