Odiyan was a movie i missed in theater .
Mostly a north kerala phenomenon odiyans are a mix of black magicians, illusionists ,martial art experts ,mime artists,animal camouflague experts and paid to use their art to scare enemies in the sixties to seventies .
My mother and grandmother told us stories of how odiyans waited in narrow edozhys or paths in the pre electric era and spring on them suddenly to strike mortal fear and at times even death by fear .
They were masters in imitating animals like cattle,deer,wild animals .
Usually thier wives were supposed to do black art pujas to support them during this time in thier houses and any faults on thier parts resulted in thier failures .
The story has Mohanlal as an odiyan trained by his grandfather and having a romantic mutual attraction to a lady of a tharavad or family and who is blamed for murders by a jealous family villain who commits the murder .
The climax comes when the odiyan who had escaped the wrath of the village to return in his old age by then to a more modern electric lighted village which scoffs at the art .
But the odiyan with his skills has the last laugh by an extended climax a couple of good songs and built up horror scenes as a mix of romantic suspense horror fictional story .
Though not perfect the difficult subject was weaved well and saved by the brilliant histrionics of mohanlal and manju warrier .
My cousin sent me this
Read more on odiyans
https://valluvanadtimes.com/2009/12/25/odiyan/
Mostly a north kerala phenomenon odiyans are a mix of black magicians, illusionists ,martial art experts ,mime artists,animal camouflague experts and paid to use their art to scare enemies in the sixties to seventies .
My mother and grandmother told us stories of how odiyans waited in narrow edozhys or paths in the pre electric era and spring on them suddenly to strike mortal fear and at times even death by fear .
They were masters in imitating animals like cattle,deer,wild animals .
Usually thier wives were supposed to do black art pujas to support them during this time in thier houses and any faults on thier parts resulted in thier failures .
The story has Mohanlal as an odiyan trained by his grandfather and having a romantic mutual attraction to a lady of a tharavad or family and who is blamed for murders by a jealous family villain who commits the murder .
The climax comes when the odiyan who had escaped the wrath of the village to return in his old age by then to a more modern electric lighted village which scoffs at the art .
But the odiyan with his skills has the last laugh by an extended climax a couple of good songs and built up horror scenes as a mix of romantic suspense horror fictional story .
Though not perfect the difficult subject was weaved well and saved by the brilliant histrionics of mohanlal and manju warrier .
My cousin sent me this
Read more on odiyans
https://valluvanadtimes.com/2009/12/25/odiyan/
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