Sindoora Sandhyakku Mounam (1982)

Sindoora Sandhyakku Mounam (transl. The Silence of the Crimson Dusk) is a 1982 Indian Malayalam film directed by I. V. Sasi and written by Priyadarshan based the Hollywood title Psych-Out. The film stars Lakhsmi, Madhavi, Ratheesh, Mohanlal, Kuthiravattom Pappu and Prathap Pothen. The whole film is set in the city of Kathmandu.

Cast

Ratheesh as Vinod

Mohanlal as Kishor

Kuthiravattom Pappu as Chandran

Prathap Pothen as Anil aka Raju

Balan K. Nair as Sekhar

Raveendran as Kumar

Kunchan as Prem Anand

Lakhsmi as Deepthi

Madhavi as Siji

Surekha as Kumar's fiancée

Sathyakala as Deepthi's Mother

Sathyachitra as Deepthi's step mother

Jaffer Khan

Jayanthi

Mammootty as Deepthi's father (cameo)

Seema as Seema (cameo)

Plot

Deepthi and Raju, who are siblings lives separately after their parents divorced. However, Deepthi faces many challenges when she goes in search of Raju after many years.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Shyam and the lyrics were written by Bichu Thirumala.

Trivia

This was one of the first screenplays of Priyadarshan, based on the American title Psych-Out. But only after release, he realized that someone else was credited for his work. Earlier, Psych-Out was remade in Hindi by Devanand, entitled Hare Rama Hare Krishna. it's not first time he faced such a bitter experience. Earlier that year he drafted Kadathu, which was directed by P. G. Viswambharan. When the movie screened in the theratre he noticed credit had gone to the director himself.

References

External links

Sindoora Sandhyakku Mounam at IMDb

view the film

sindoora sandhyakku mounam on YouTube