![]() The state topped in the country to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals according to the annual report of NITI Aayog published in 2019. Kerala is the second-most urbanised major state in the country with 47.7% urban population according to the 2011 Census of India. Kerala is the second-least impoverished state in India according to the Annual Report of Reserve Bank of India published in 2013. Kerala has the lowest positive population growth rate in India, 3.44% the highest Human Development Index (HDI), 0.784 in 2018 (0.712 in 2015) the highest literacy rate, 96.2% in the 2018 literacy survey conducted by the National Statistical Office, India the highest life expectancy, 77 years and the highest sex ratio, 1,084 women per 1,000 men. ![]() The economy of Kerala is the 10th-largest in India with ₹7.82 trillion (US$110 billion) in gross state domestic product (GSDP) and a per capita GSDP of ₹204,000 (US$2,900). After the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, the modern-day state of Kerala was formed by merging the Malabar district of Madras State (excluding Gudalur taluk of Nilgiris district, Lakshadweep Islands, Topslip, the Attappadi Forest east of Anakatti), the taluk of Kasaragod (now Kasaragod District) in South Canara (Tulunad), and the erstwhile state of Thiru-Kochi (excluding four southern taluks of Kanyakumari district, and Shenkottai taluks). The Malabar region, in the northern part of Kerala, had been a part of the Madras province of British India, which later became a part of the Madras State post-independence. They united to form the state of Thiru-Kochi in 1949. At the time of Indian independence movement in the early 20th century, there were two major princely states in Kerala: Travancore and Cochin. In the 15th century, the spice trade attracted Portuguese traders to Kerala, and paved the way for European colonisation of India. The region's prominence in trade was noted in the works of Pliny as well as the Periplus around 100 CE. The region had been a prominent spice exporter since 3000 BCE. The Ay kingdom in the deep south and the Ezhimala kingdom in the north formed the other kingdoms in the early years of the Common Era (CE). Music by M Jayachandran is also nothing to write home about.The Chera Dynasty was the first prominent kingdom based in Kerala. Prachi Tehlan, Anu Sitara and Kaniha among others don’t have much to offer in the movie. Unni Mukundan carries the movie, by and large, on his shoulders and definitely looked like a tormented and determined warrior. Mammootty’s feminine transformation is indigestible at first, but then the actor manages to pull it off without overdoing it. Mammootty adds Chandroth Valya Panicker to the list of historical characters he essayed in Pazhassi Raja and Vadakkan Veeragadha among more, but age is beginning to fail him in the action sequences. From then on, it’s a patient wait to know whether the warriors of Valluvanad can succeed on the battlefield and change their clan’s fate of martyrdom. Mammootty’s character is portrayed as a preacher of peace who warns his family members about the destiny that awaits the suicidal warrior clan. He meets his relatives Chandroth Panicker and Chanthunni who are determined to fight the battle. ![]() It is here that Mammootty’s character appears again in the film in an effeminate avatar. The movie then shifts to a brothel in Tiruvanvaya where Mamankam happens. Chandroth Panicker is accompanied by his nephew Chanthunni, a very young warrior who is shown as a prodigy just like Chandroth Valya Panicker. The movie adopts a very melodramatic approach to show the sentiments of women from the clan who have to send their men to the battlefield, knowing their chances of survival is bleak. Fast forward 24 years, Chandroth Panicker (Unni Mukundan), the new head of Valuvanadan warrior clan, decides to battle again. ![]() Towards the end of the battle, Valya Panicker escapes from the battlefield, staining the Valluvanadan warrior clan’s reputation of being fearless. The movie opens with a battle scene where Valya Panicker and a group of suicidal warriors fight the army of Zamorin. Mammootty plays Chandroth Valya Panicker, a master warrior who escapes the battlefield after coming close to killing the Zamorin ruler. ![]()
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