Synopsis
Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
18 audience votes
Key crew
- Adoor GopalakrishnanDirector
- Adoor GopalakrishnanScreenplay
- Vijaya BhaskarOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- MammoottyVaikom Muhammad Basheer
- MuraliBasheer's friend
- Ravi VallatholRazzaq
- ThilakanJail warder
- SreenathJailor
- Karamana Janardanan NairKaramana
- M R GopakumarCast
- K. P. A. C. AzeezInspector
- Babu NamboothiriCast
- Jagannatha VarmaJudge
- KPAC LalithaNarayani(Voice)
- Vembayam ThampiThorappan