Elippathayam

Synopsis

In Kerala, an indolent, cowardly middle-aged man living off the decaying ancestral wealth of his matrilineal feudal manor spends his days sleeping, bathing with herbal oils, and watching his three sisters sacrifice their lives to attend to his every comfort, terrified of rat infestations in the granary and drowning rats in traps, until the feudal system collapses and the villagers drag him like a trapped rodent into the pond. Adoor Gopalakrishnan's BFI Sutherland Trophy-winning Malayalam parallel cinema summit starring Karamana Janardhanan Nair.