Arthana

Arthana
Directed by	IV Sasi
Written by	raghunath paleri
Screenplay by	raghunath paleri
Starring	Murali, Priya Raman, Raadhika Sarathkumar
Cinematography	Ravi K. Chandran
Music by	SP Venkitesh
Release date	1993
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Arthana is a 1993 Indian Malayalam film, directed by IV Sasi and starring Murali, Priya Raman and Raadhika Sarathkumar in lead roles.

Cast

• Murali As Ramachandran/Ramu/Chandrettan
• Priya Raman As Priya
• Raadhika Sarathkumar As Bharathi
• Siddique
• Vineeth
• Sangeetha
• Sukumari As Priya's Mother
• Kuthiravattam Pappu
• MG Soman
• Kavitha
• Rajeev Rangan
• Rani Larius
• Jm Riswan

Synopsis

Ramachandran/Ramu is a building contractor. He stays with his wife Bharathi and daughter. Bharathi has enough love for him, however is short tempered and has kept many restrictions in the house keeping in mind the goodwill for all. Much to his dislike, Ramu's father in law and brother in law uses all means to save money from projects he is involved in, as they are partners in his construction company. His daughter(Sangeetha), besides doing college education, is also attending a dance class. She is in love with the dance master Unni(Vineeth), whose mother is a well known dancer. However Unni's fathers details are not revealed by his mother as he had died before their marriage and his birth. On knowing that her daughter is in love with dance master, Bharathi reaches the dance school and shouts at them, calling him a Bastard. She also suggests her club members to refrain from sending their children for the dance class. Ramachandran was much dissapointed about this incident as he too had an unknown son(Sreekuttan).

Ramachandran also has a son Sreekuttan and his lover Priya in his another house at village where one of his project is in progress. He has a happy life there too, enjoying with all freedom. He used to visit there often and only his best friend (Siddique) knows about this relationship. Though he was willing to marry Priya, she told that it is not required as she is much confident to live with his son. His best friend also suggests that the marriage will turn void as it does not have the consent of his wife. However Ramachandran plans to write his house in the village in Sreekuttan's name.

Things go worst as Ramachandran suffers a heart attack and is admitted in ICU section of hospital. He becomes speechless, and informs his best friend that he wants to see Priya. Priya reaches hospital with Sreekuttan and Ramachandran's friend makes way for her to visit him by carefully avoiding the presence of Bharathi. However Bharathi had a glance of both of them, just before leaving ICU. Ramachandran passes away that night. His brother in law was just about to cremate the body when Sreekuttan shouts for his father and runs towards the body. Ramachandran's friend announces that it is Ramu's kid and, as per rituals, if there is a son for the deceased, its he who should perform the last ceremony for his father. And so, Sreekuttan performs the last rituals and lits up the body for cremation.

Bharathi's hatredness increase towards Priya. However Ramu's daughter develops sisterly feelings for Sreekuttan and then with the help of Unni she traces Priya's house. It is then she realises that how happy his father was in the presence of Priya and Sreekuttan. The name Sreekuttan was suggested by her. The clothes that was bought by Ramu for her were actually stitched by Priya. She is also told about how they became attracted with each other. For a new project construction, as instructed by his client, Ramachandran had destroyed the house where Priya and his mother resided. On sight of seeing their house being destroyed, Priya's mother dies. Priya then stays with one of her friends, who insist her to try her luck on painting. Though she tried that, no one was purchasing it. Ramachandran happened to see her, however she completely ignored him. Soon after that her paintings started to get sold. Later she came to realise that the paintings were purchased by none other than Ramachandran for use in his business ventures like hotel. Also she found out that Ramachandran too likes painting, and she could see that it was the portrayal of she and her mother that was done by Ramachandran. As time passed by, even after knowing that Ramachandran was married, they got attracted to each other. Owing to the fear of Bharathi's reaction, he had hidden this fact from anyone else.

Bharathi gets angry with her daughter and locks her up in the room. However she manages to escape through the window, and visits Priya's house. Bharathi reaches there along with his father and brother and asks Priya and son to leave the house. Priya asks for a period of two days to shift. Bharati forcefully pushes Sreekuttan and takes her daughter along.

Sreekuttan tells his mother Priya that he wants to meet his father. Priya consoles him by telling that they will meet him shortly. Bharathi's daughter plans to leave the house as she finds uncomfortable to stay in the house. What will happen to and Sreekuttan? Will Bharathi accept them? The climax reveals it.

External links

• Arthana at IMDb