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Wowing a cyber audience
Mini Nair and Ravi Vallathol in a scene from the movie.
FROM THE silver screen to the mini screen to the computer monitor, cinema has come a long way. And now it is the age of the Internet movie. The first web film in Malayalam has just been released on the Net.
`Mayilpeelithaalu', an 80-minute-long video feature film, is also the first Malayalam film to be premiered on the Net, according to Ajith R. Panickar, its director. The film is being made available on the Net for 10 years by `NumTV', pioneers of video screening, through their portals `www.numtv.com' and `www.enmovies.com'.
History was, perhaps, created by default in this case. Ajith would not have achieved this rare feat, but for the adamant attitude of a Malayalam TV channel that demanded of him to buy a prime-time slot to telecast his movie in four episodes. Ajith's reluctance to oblige and the channel's unrelenting posture necessitated exploring the possibility of selling his product through other means. Thus emerged the idea of releasing the film on the Net. Ajith, based on whose story Balu Narayanan has crafted the screenplay and dialogue, was also the director of photography, with three cinematographers, Nandan Menon, Babu and Paul Mycavu, wielding the camera. Ajith is a freelance photographer as well. The story revolves around a Keralite surgeon settled in the U.S. who, on a sojourn back home, engages a leading lawyer to trace a youth missing for quite some years. The film is also about a youth who, subsequent to an accident, is suffering from amnesia. As the name indicates, the movie also conveys feelings of nostalgia and the pangs of lost love.
The film, though shot on a low budget in a single schedule lasting eight days, has a line-up of some of the leading names in Malayalam film and television: Ravi Vallathol, Manu Varma, Poojappura Ravi, Adam Ayub, Aranmula Hariharaputhran, Mini Nair, Sangeetha Nair, `Kuttiyedathi' Vilasini and others.
By J. Ajith Kumar
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