POOVU
Malayalam Feature Film
Fifty year old JEEVAN embarks on one final journey with his mother, wife, daughter, and first love – reclaiming the lost path of his destiny as time, seasons, and places entwine in his life.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
I consider this as an ideal time for a trip down the memory lane as I am fast approaching my 50th birthday. It is neither the fear nor pessimism that hit me upon thinking that i am well past a good part of my life, but the fact that there is nothing more substantiate and resourceful to dwell upon, than your own life, that helps to stimulate the creativity to the desired level.This movie is an outcome of one’s desire to travel back-in-time, to one’s longings, dreams, wishes and imagination while he travels ahead in his journey called life.This is the result of a thought, transposed to a movie, through a journey I undertook with four most influential women in my life who presumed to know me inside out, though far from reality. The ladies who travel with me on this journey are my mother, wife, daughter and my first love, exactly in the order of intensity I have towards them. The realisation that there is no possibility of the journey with these women to take place, has made me dream about and film it. What if this journey is a dream? I wanted to portray things realistically even through the cinema I make, so why not realise the dream cinematically?
SYNOPSIS
In life, he hadn’t travelled much.
Fleeing from homeland with his mother was his first.
Adolescence was a passage through the pain of lost love.
On a honeymoon train ride to Delhi, his second journey, he is saved from losing his way by his wife.
And later, the journey of holding hands with his daughter…
What is left is a journey unburdened by the inevitability of return…
and in the midst of it, he travels along a path he had chosen, but had failed to tread…
Travelling with the four women who have influenced him most in life –
mother, wife, daughter & first lover… is fifty year old Jeevan.
Time, seasons & places entwine hands with him on this journey… Just as he had desired.
POSTERS
CAST & CREW

ANISH BABU ABBAS
DIRECTOR & DOP

BINOY GEORGE
DIRECTOR

E SANTHOSH KUMAR
PRODUCER

JOHNSON V DEVASSY
SCRIPT WRITER

RASHIN AHMED
EDITOR

KPAC LEELA
ARTIST

MEENAKSHI ANOOP
ARTIST

SRUTHY VIPIN
ARTIST

SANTHI RAO
ARTIST

MANJULAN K.V
ARTIST

NINOY VARGHESE
ORIGINAL SCORE

MEERA MAX
MAKE UP

MRIDHULA MURALI
COSTUMES

SONY ANTONY
ART DIRECTOR

SHEFIN MAYAN
SOUND DESIGN

SAJAN K JOHNY
VFX CREATIVE DIRECTOR

BHARANAADHIR
COLOURIST

ANTONY STEPHEN
POSTER DESIGN

ASHRAF THALASSERY
PRODUCTION CO ORDINATOR

SANJAY PAL
PRODUCTION CONTROLLER

SALINI PANICKER
FILM FESTIVAL COORDINATOR

BALU PARAMESWAR
DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER

RAKENT PAI
CASTING DIRECTOR

FRANKO
CASTING DIRECTOR
LOCATION STILLS
STILLS
MEDIA
IMDB : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29705000/
Asian Lite : https://asianlite.com/2024/
Madhyamam English Online : https://english.madhyamam.com/entertainment/movie-review/poovu-a-meditative-journey-into-the-spiritual-landscape-of-love-1246179
For the Love of Cinema by Vidal Dcosta : https://vidaldcosta.substack.com/p/currently-watching-poovu-2024
