Fourth River

Fourth River (2020)

Fourth River tells the life of four Naxalite revolutionaries: Naxalite Stephen, his wife Comrade Sophia, his daughter Naxalite Anitha, and their mentor Naxalite Ravi Master as they lived through a turbulent period of the Naxalite movement in India.

Date of release
2020-08-01
Runtime
1h 59m
Director
R. K. Dreamwest

Interesting facts

Fourth River is a 2020 Indian Malayalam-language political thriller film directed by RK DreamWest, starring Diphul Mathew, Nithu Chandran, Baiju Bala and Rahul Krishna in key roles. Released on 28 June 2020 through Amazon Prime Video, it is the first ever Malayalam language film to have a direct to OTT.

Production

Director RK DreamWest had the intention to make a film based on the Communist political movement in India that started in the early 1920s as an anti-colonial struggle when the country was still ruled by Britain. The film progresses through the time after independence in 1947 when the moderate faction of the party joined the democratic process and became the ruling party in several Indian states.

The film focuses on the struggle of plantations workers in Munnar, a mountain region in South India known for Tea Plantations. Plantation owners had been exploiting workers through bonded slavery and cruel punishments for decades. The exploitation culminated in the '90s. Workers launched union strikes under the leadership of the Communist party. As the strike prolonged to several months, poverty and suicides became a routine thing in the valley.

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