Sukrutham
Sukrutham is a 1994 Malayalam film, directed by Hari Kumar, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair, with background music by Johnson. The film is based on the subject of complex human relationships, inevitable human death and the consequences to the relatives of the deceased.
Plot summary
plays journalist Ravishankar, who is a victim of blood cancer. The knowledge of his disease and the death on its way hugely disappoints him and he loses all his hope in life. He tries to arrange things in and around his life so that the people he care suffer the least due to his death. In an unheard of gesture, he even pressures his wife Malini to get involved with their friend Rajendran so that she won't be alone after Ravi's death. Ravi goes back to his village to spend his last days with his aunt, where his childhood sweetheart and cousin, Durga, who is still unmarried starts taking care of him.Meanwhile, a doctor who is a friend of Ravishankar convinces him to undergo holistic treatment at his centre. The centre is driven by a theme that each and every cell in our body has a mind which decides whether the body it belongs to should live or die. The treatment does wonders to Ravi and he is on his way to recovery and final checkups confirm that his blood count is normal. Ravi is delighted to come back to his life; but everything in his hope and joy of life is squandered when he realises that his death was more awaited than his recovery. Everybody, including the relatives, find it awkward to move on now that he is going to live rather than die, foiling all earlier plans. Ravi gets a lethal blow when even Durga, who clearly had no worldly motives, confesses that her affection was directed at a dying man, and not available anymore as he was going to live, and rejects his overtures as she clearly doesn't want to become a concubine. Back at his home, he gets his final blow when he realises that his recovery is a blow to even his wife, since Rajendran has by now started sleeping with her.
Ravi finally composes his own obituary in his office and commits suicide.
The final line to the audience is the old message that "death is the ultimate truth, an inevitable part of life" with an addendum that it can even be, "in its own way, a moment to rejoice".
Cast
- Mammootty as Ravishankar
- Gouthami as Malini
- Manoj K. Jayan as Rajendran
- Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Cheriyamma
- Shivaji
- Narendra Prasad as Doctor Unni
- Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Cheriyachan
- Shanthi Krishna as Durga
- Kuttyedathi Vilasini as Durga's Mother
- Krishna Kumar
- V. K. Sreeraman as Doctor Rahim
Music
| Song | Singer |
| "Bandhangale" | K. S. Chithra |
| "Kadalinnagaadhamaam Neelimayil" | K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chithra |
| "Om Poorna" | K. J. Yesudas |
| "Poroo" | K. J. Yesudas |
| "Sahasradalasam" | K. J. Yesudas, Chorus |