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Add to a movie listArdhanareeswaran is an upcoming Malayalam fantasy Adventure film directed by Ratheesh Ravi. The film, which features Jayasurya, Rima Kallingal and Anoop Menon, deals with transgenderism, and includes over 300 hijadas. Mathews, who is born as a boy child, but brought up as a girl. He is forced to leave the native place after the villagers make fun of him. He reaches the land of hijadas. After meeting many people there with the identical characteristics, he decides to become one among them in the name Sandhya.
The film portrays the various rituals that are prominent in the hijada communities in India. The movie is produced by Anand Kumar in the banner of Yes Cinema Company.
Synopsis
The film story is about Mathews who is born as a boy but has been brought up as a girl. Hence what happens is that the mannerisms of a girl get imbibed into his character. When he goes up he becomes the point of mockery among the public. Girls laughed at him and boys make fun of him, while others ignore him as an outcast. It is this scenario that is included in the film in the point of view of the victim. It is then the Mathews decide to leave the town and he reaches the area where hijadas are prominent. There he finds many people who are like him and finds the perfect place to live. He takes the name of Sandhya.Actors
Jayasurya
(Mathews/Sandhya)
Rima Kallingal
Lena
(Hema)
Anoop Menon
(Niran Ghosh, a film director)
Jagathy Sreekumar
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