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.

ANISH BABU ABBAS
BINOY GEORGE

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