Ozhivudivasathe Kali

Ozhivudivasathe Kali (2016)

ഒഴിവുദിവസത്തെ കളി

Come, let's play a game

On an election holiday, five friends get together for a booze party. Their only intention is fun and refreshment. As the time passes they start to open up the hidden wildness of their real nature. Tired and bored in arguments they plan to play a game. A game they used to play in their childhood.

Date of release
2016-06-17
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Mystery, Crime, Drama
Director
Sanal Kumar Sasidharan

Casting

Interesting facts

Ozhivu Divasathe Kali is a 2015 Indian Malayalam indie drama film directed by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, based on the short story of the same name by Unni R. The film follows five middle-aged men who get together for a booze party during an election holiday in Kerala. It won the 46th Kerala State Film Award for Best Film. The film was included in The Hindu's top 25 Malayalam films of the decade and is widely regarded as one of the defining movies of the Malayalam New Wave.

Development and production

The film is based on the story of well-known short story writer Unni R. The story has been successfully adopted to make political satire. There was no script while shooting the film. The film has some unique features because of this making pattern. All the dialogues are evolved due to improvisations and it contains some fine long takes. One of the lengthy shots conceived in the film is 53 minutes.

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