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G. Aravindan is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Sound Indian born on 21 january 1935 at Kottayam (Inde)

G. Aravindan

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Birth name Govindan Aravindan
Nationality Inde
Birth 21 january 1935 at Kottayam (Inde)
Death 15 march 1991 (at 56 years) at Thiruvananthapuram (Inde)

Govindan Aravindan (Malayalam: ഗോവിന്ദന്‍ അരവിന്ദന്‍; born 21 January 1935 in Kottayam — died 15 March 1991 in Trivandrum) who was popularly known as G. Aravindan was a national award winning film director, screenwriter, musician and cartoonist from Kerala, India. He was known for his unorthodox way of filmmaking; he changed his cinematic forms consistently and experimented in storytelling without regular narrative styles. Before venturing into film field, he was an established cartoonist. He had also worked with documentaries and theatre.

Biography

G. Aravindan was the son of famous comedy writer M. N. Govindan Nair. Aravindan started his professional life as a cartoonist for the journal Mathrubhumi. He established himself as a noted cartoonist in the early 1960s with his cartoon series Cheriya Manushyarum Valiya Lokavum which dealt with the adventures of the central characters Ramu and Guruji, mingled with political and social satire. The series was preceded by two more cartoon series, Ramuvinte Sahasika Yathrakal and Guruji, featuring the central characters of Cheriya Manushyarum Valiya Lokavum.
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Filmography of G. Aravindan (15 films)

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Director

Esthappan
Esthappan (2012)

Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Actors Gemini Ganesan
Rating69% 3.464813.464813.464813.464813.46481
Esthappan, a fisherman lives in a seashore colony of fishermen. To the fisherfolk of the coastal Christian village, he is at once an eccentric simpleton, a possessed soothsayer and faith healer, a Satanic grave stealer. Esthappan's story unfolds through narrations of other fishermen about the miracles created by him. Through the contradictory statements of these people, a mystical figure of Esthappan unfolds.
Vasthuhara
Vasthuhara (1991)

Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mohanlal, Neena Gupta, Shobana, Padmini Ramachandran, N. L. Balakrishnan, Valsala Menon
Rating74% 3.70023.70023.70023.70023.7002
The film takes place in Calcutta, 1971. The story begins with rehabilitation official Venu (Mohanlal) coming to Calcutta in one of his regular visits to shift about 35 to 40 refugee families to the Andaman Islands. The current rehabilitation plan is that only those who fall under the category of schedule caste farmers. People in Andaman, too, are not happy about taking in refugees. All the refugees have been staying in Permanent Liability Camp in Rana ghat, West Bengal for the past two decades. Experiencing the shattered lives of poor displaced people deeply hurts Venu in his silent moments alone in his small lodge room frequently finds himself lost in the thoughts about the lives of the refuge seekers he meets during the day.
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And There Was a Village..., 1h52
Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Actors Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Thilakan, Vineeth, M. S. Thripunithura, Kunjandi
Rating71% 3.5857753.5857753.5857753.5857753.585775
The time is the mid-fifties, when the Indian states were being reorganised. The place is a remote village in Kerala. There is a palpable hum of excitement as the village Panchayath, led by the Brahmin landlord, is determined to bring the benefits of electricity to this backward place.
Chidambaram
Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Actors Bharath Gopi, Smita Patil, Sreenivasan, Mohanlal, Murali, Nedumudi Venu
Rating72% 3.6087153.6087153.6087153.6087153.608715
Shankaran (Bharath Gopi) works as the Office Superintendent in a vast government farm situated in the hilly areas on the border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. His colleague Jacob (Mohan Das) is the Field Supervisor and a work addict. The two men are poles apart in their characters. Jacob is a down-to-earth and rather commonplace sort of person, whose social pride does not conflict with his easy-going attitude to morality. Shankaran, on the other hand, is a mild-mannered loner. He has an easy, friendly relationship with the workers.
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Twilight
Twilight (1982)

Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Balachandran Chullikkadu, Kalpana
Rating67% 3.394763.394763.394763.394763.39476
The protagonist of the film is a young artist (Balachandran Chullikkad) who lives with his father, a radical friend, a Sportsman and a music-loving young woman. His world collapses when his father dies, the radical friend leaves him, the sportsman friend gets injured in an accident and has to give up sports and her family takes the woman away to another city. The final shot shows him curled up in foetal position in his cell in a mental asylum.
Kummatty
Kummatty (1979)

Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Kuttyedathi Vilasini
Rating73% 3.660073.660073.660073.660073.66007
The film is a Pied Piper-like figment of Malabar’s folklore about a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty (bogeyman). Kummatty materialises from nature one day to mingle with and weave a spell of carefree abandon around the children of the village. Kummatty travels from place to place and entertains children with dancing, singing and performing magic. At one such performance at a village, Kummatty starts to mingle with and weave a spell of carefree abandon around the children of the village.
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Kanchana Sita, 1h27
Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about religion, Films based on plays
Actors Prem Nazir
Rating70% 3.5226153.5226153.5226153.5226153.522615
The film begins with the journey of Rama and Lakshmana to kill Shambuka – the shudra who performs penance – but Shambuka's wife pleads for his life, and he is spared. Rama and Lakshmana return to Ayodhya to face Urmila, the spirited wife of Lakshmana. Rama replies to her reproaches for abandoning Sita in the Dandakaranya forests, through which they have just journeyed, that the husband of Sita is only a servant of the people of Ayodhya.
The Circus Tent, 2h10
Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Themes Circus films
Actors Bharath Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, Jalaja, V K Sreeraman
Rating72% 3.628693.628693.628693.628693.62869
Besides a long glittering river some men raise a pole. A tent balloons up. Where there was wide sand and the sound of water lapping, there is now a truck, chairs, hoops, stools, ropes, goats, a lioness, a pair of fat girls, some bicycles, and an old man with a philosopher's dignity, putting on white paste.

Scriptwriter

Esthappan
Esthappan (2012)

Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Actors Gemini Ganesan
Rating69% 3.464813.464813.464813.464813.46481
Esthappan, a fisherman lives in a seashore colony of fishermen. To the fisherfolk of the coastal Christian village, he is at once an eccentric simpleton, a possessed soothsayer and faith healer, a Satanic grave stealer. Esthappan's story unfolds through narrations of other fishermen about the miracles created by him. Through the contradictory statements of these people, a mystical figure of Esthappan unfolds.
Vasthuhara
Vasthuhara (1991)

Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mohanlal, Neena Gupta, Shobana, Padmini Ramachandran, N. L. Balakrishnan, Valsala Menon
Roles Writer
Rating74% 3.70023.70023.70023.70023.7002
The film takes place in Calcutta, 1971. The story begins with rehabilitation official Venu (Mohanlal) coming to Calcutta in one of his regular visits to shift about 35 to 40 refugee families to the Andaman Islands. The current rehabilitation plan is that only those who fall under the category of schedule caste farmers. People in Andaman, too, are not happy about taking in refugees. All the refugees have been staying in Permanent Liability Camp in Rana ghat, West Bengal for the past two decades. Experiencing the shattered lives of poor displaced people deeply hurts Venu in his silent moments alone in his small lodge room frequently finds himself lost in the thoughts about the lives of the refuge seekers he meets during the day.
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And There Was a Village..., 1h52
Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Actors Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Thilakan, Vineeth, M. S. Thripunithura, Kunjandi
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.5857753.5857753.5857753.5857753.585775
The time is the mid-fifties, when the Indian states were being reorganised. The place is a remote village in Kerala. There is a palpable hum of excitement as the village Panchayath, led by the Brahmin landlord, is determined to bring the benefits of electricity to this backward place.