Connection
Oridam (2005)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listOridam is a 2005 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Pradeep Nair, starring Vishnu and Geethu Mohandas in the lead roles. Oridam movie is a quest of a sex worker to find a place for herself in the society.The very same society, which uses and throws her. The reason for a woman being thrown into the street could be the same, anywhere in the world. The pains, sufferings, dreams and the thoughts of a new life tormented her. She lived weighing herself between the right and the wrong.
The sex worker (Geethu Mohandas) who doesn't have a name, nor does many of the other characters in the movie. The protagonists has a simple dream. A dream of leading a decent life, one that doesn't have anything to do with the flesh trade.
AWARDS
1.Special Jury Award in Direction-52nd National Film Awards.
2.Special Jury Award in Direction-Kerala State Film Awards.
3.Best Actress-Kerala State Film Award s.
4.Best Background Score- Kerala State Film Awards
5.Best Costume Design - Kerala State Film Awards.
6.Best Film Processing-Kerala State Film Awards.
Kerala Film Critics Association Awards-Director,Actress,Sound Mixing.
Actors
Geetu Mohandas
(Sex worker)
K. P. A. C. Lalitha
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Oridam
There are 261 films with the same actors, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Oridam, you will probably like those similar films :
Valkannadi (2002)
Genres Drama
Actors Kalabhavan Mani, Thilakan, Geetu Mohandas, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Anil Murali, Babu Namboothiri
Rating51%
Life Is Beautiful (2000)
Directed by A. M. Fazil
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Samyuktha Varma, Geetu Mohandas, Innocent, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Nedumudi Venu
Rating60%
Jilebi (2015)
, 2h14Actors Jayasurya, Remya Nambeesan, Vijayaraghavan, Shari, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Leema Babu
Rating53%
Jilebi is a sweet story about confrontation between a middle aged village Sreekuttan (Jayasurya) and his city-bred nephews. Sreekuttan, is a village guy whose life is happily confined to his farm and crops. Far away, in the Dubai city, trouble brews for him in the form of his nephew and niece. From the first confrontation it becomes clear that both Sreekuttan and kids are fish out of water, other than their respective backgrounds. The tech-savvy kids are determined to make Sreekuttan's life miserable and others through mischief. Soon there vacation is over and leave their family home with Kuttetan to start schooling in Kodaikanal. The road trip to their new school leads to surprises - some sour, some sweet experiences, for both. Sreekuttan and the kids becomes close. At school they are met with Silpa(Ramya Nambisan) - kids mother, she angrily lambasts Sreekuttan and blames him and his village farming attitude and responsibility for being late for admissions. Sreekuttan puts Silpa in her place for her snobbish attitude and reminds her money doesn't make relationships change its inherent values. Later understanding her mistake Silpa let's her children join in a nearby school to her family house and fly's back from Dubai to Thrissur.
Poi (2006)
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama
Actors Uday Kiran, Vimala Raman, Geetu Mohandas, Prakash Raj, Avinash, Kailasam Balachander
Rating54%
Valluvanar (Avinash) is an upright political leader in Tamil Nadu much respected for his honesty and uprightness. And he refuses to compromise on this trait even when his only son Kamban (Uday Kiran) finds himself in jail for no fault of his.
Alibhai (2007)
, 2h18Directed by Shaji Kailas
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Mohanlal, Cochin Haneefa, Gopika, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Rajan P. Dev
Rating33%
Alibhai tells the story of Anwar Ali (Mohanlal) known as Alibhai a King "Dadha" of Palayam market, Kozhikode. He is the unquestionable hero in that area and savior of the poor and downtrodden. The movie opens with the flashback sequences which establish young Ali, a member of a barami family famous for making Urus, who leaves his home in his childhood when his own father Ahmed Sahib (Innocent) mistakes him for an unexpected thief and beats him black and blue in front of people. Ali's friends Sundaran Thampi (Siddique), tells the mob he saw the theft which was actually done by himself for avenging his fathers rivalry with Ahmad Sahib. Ali knowing he was cheated by his friend grab the butcher sword and chops off his hand and flees from his home to the Palayam market. He never backs out from a fight where he grows up as Alibhai, an undisputed leader of the proletarian class, one who stands up to speak for them and even to clench his fists and fight for them and their rights. The son grows up to be a good-hearted toughie. There are many whose lives revolve around Alibhai. There is Kunjikannan, known popularly as Market Kunji, who is Alibhai's mentor and sort of guardian. There are a bunch of friends and well-wishers who form his gang, including Hameed, Salim Babu, Ramu, Podipaatti Kunjaattu, Sameer Das, Vijayan, Dasappan and a little boy Ganapathy. There is the flower girl Chenthamara who loves him deeply, and there is young Kingini, who is brought up by Alibhai just as a father brings up his daughter. Then comes another girl Ganga, who is given refuge by Alibhai under some special circumstances. He also looks after Abraham, who earlier used to rule over the Palayam market as a goonda, and who was defeated in a fight by Alibhai, following which he was so badly injured that he has been bedridden ever since. All these and many others constitute the near and dear ones of Alibhai. Once in a while Alibhai goes to his own house to meet his mother and to secretly leave behind a gift for his father, whom he loves dearly. But all this is destined to change when Sundaran, who was actually the one who had plotted against Ali in his childhood resurfaces after a long time and with a remorseful heart, begs of Ali to forgive him and to return home. At almost the same time someone else appears - Danny Abraham, the son of Abraham, who has certain motives of his own. From here Alibhai's life is destined to change dramatically. They wanted to drive out Alibhai from the market and build a shopping mall with the help of local politicians. They are hand in glove with the city corporation and the state administration and are having the aid of big investors from foreign countries. They are into anything, to settle their old scores and change the Kozhikode city into an international tourist centre which provides fun, wine and women. How Alibhai resists their attempts to save the market and the city. At one stage, they planted a bomb and killed many of his friends and neighbours. Ali bhai kills every one behind it single-handedly and become the godfather of that area.
Anandabhairavi (2007)
Directed by Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Saikumar, Babu Namboothiri, K. P. A. C. Lalitha
Rating60%
Jayaraj's Anandabhairavi depicts the life of Vasudeva Panikker, a Kathakali artist and his son. Sai Kumar plays the role of Panikker and Master Devan is his son Appu. Sai Kumar won the Kerala State award for the second best actor, for his performance in this movie. Storyline is prepared jointly by Mahesh and Sajeev. Madambu Kunjukkuttan scripted the movie. Music is by Parthasarathi. Harinath cranks the camera.
Bharathan Effect (2007)
Genres Science fiction
Actors Biju Menon, Geetu Mohandas, Suresh Gopi, Jagathy Sreekumar, Sudheesh, Innocent
Rating50%
Bharathan is a post-graduate and unemployed. Somehow he manages to get the job of a Malayalam teacher at a tuition centre. His wife Geetha works in a consumer store. The couple stays in a rented house owned by Kariyachan. Bharathan is a genius inventor and has a rather inquisitive mind especially as far as scientific matters are concerned. He is always around inventions with little care on what happens around him. He never sticks to any particular job, which lands his family in deep financial troubles. His wife Geetha is upset about all this, but little could she do to avoid her husband from becoming the laughing stock of many who don't understand him. Some people like Kariachan (Jagathy Sreekumar) cleverly usurp the patent rights of some of Bharathan's crude inventions. The few people who come with helping hands are Thankachan, one of his students in the tuition centre and Peter, who goes around finding him new jobs. In the meantime Bharathan invents a gadget that could be used to clean and sweep the courtyard and also to pluck coconuts and fruits from palms and trees.
Four Women (2007)
, 1h45Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Genres Drama
Actors Padmapriya, Nandita Das, Kavya Madhavan, Geetu Mohandas, Murali, Manju Pillai
Rating64%
Naalu Pennungal is the story of four women from Kuttanad in Alappuzha district in Kerala. The stories are set in the years between the 1940s to the 1960s.
Raakilipattu (2007)
Directed by Priyadarshan
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Jyothika, Tabu, Sharbani Mukherji, Lakshmi Narayan, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Major Ravi
Josephine (Jyothika), her best friend Radhika (Sharbani Mukherjee) and their friends are pranksters in a ladies' college. Like other college girls, they sing songs, break rules and wreak havoc. They also have a grudge against Gita, another girl from the college.
Thakarachenda (2007)
Directed by Avira Rebecca
Actors Sreenivasan, Geetu Mohandas, Manikandan Pattambi, Seema G. Nair
Rating59%
The film is set in a slum in Ernakulam and focusses on a group of slum dwellers who are usually ignored in the ambitious blueprints of city developers. The protagonist of the film, Chakrapani (Sreenivasan), is a disabled beggar and also a small-time moneylender who lives in the slum. A drunkard, he spends most of the time quarrelling with his mother. He has an eye on Latha (Geethu Mohandas) who lives nearby with her two children, Siva and Malli, though she detests him. Latha, an asthmatic, works as a maid and dreams of a better future for her children. Another woman Vasanthi (Seema G. Nair) too lives in the slum with her two children and a drunkard of a husband (Manikandan) who is of no use to anybody and who keeps causing endless trouble to her and her children. Finally, desperation forces Chakrapani and Latha to unite and raise their voice in protest again the ignorance towards their slum. Chakrapani ends up as their leader. The story reaches its climax when the government takes steps to get rid of the slum in order to go on with developmental activities and the slum-dwellers find that they have nowhere to go. A JCB arrives on the scene and the local people protest as a union with Chakrapani in the forefront. But their pleas fall on deaf ears.