Piravi (Birth) - 1988

It is a simple story that creates a sustaining mood through close attention to detail, the focus is on an aged father in a village who has heard that his son, a student at the University of Trivandrum, may have been arrested by the police for instigating unrest against the authorities. When the father journeys to Trivandrum to enquire about the whereabouts of his son, he runs smack into a wall of bureaucracy and red tape - and, in the end, resigns himself to the worst.

Assembling more than 25 Awards

Swaham - 1994

The plight of little people smothered by an increasingly bureaucratic world aas the subject of Swaham. In this film, the modest happiness of a family running a coffee shop in a rural village suddenly falls apart with the death of the father. The business goes under, and the family is forced to move out of the home they have lived in for years so that the landlord can sell it. Even through such sufferings, the family stands close together, truly united by love. Then the eldest son decides to enlist in the army for a better future for the family, but. . . . Depicting the agony of the people of the "Third World" in their cruel reality of life, this film was acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival, and on other occasions, for its astonishing realism.

Here the filmmaker turns into an author and a philosopher. He searches for this via his own means, by the way of photography, sound, etc. Life is something not be composed in frames of cinema, but Cinema is one that understands and sympathizes with the images of life. The Filmmaker, now finds his position next to God.

Vanaprastham

This film was set in the late 1930's when Kerala was till under British rule. The protagonist Kunjikuttan (Mohanlal) is born as the son of a low cast woman, Baghi, who works as a servant to Namboodiri, the lord of the manor, and an unknown father. Baghi suspects that Namboodiri is Kunjikuttan's father, but she refuses to reveal the truth to her son.

This uncertainty torments Kunjikuttan throughout his life. At the age of 10, he begins to study Kathakali. Early on, he proves to be the most gifted pupil that the strict and demanding Master has ever had.

Kunjikuttan is barely 18 when he is forced to marry Savithri, the daughter of the manor's steward. Their union turns out to be a very unhappy one despite the birth of their daughter, Saradha, a lively and joyful child whose passion for Kathakali quickly grows. While Kunjikuttan gains more and more recognition for his performances, his modest life is often difficult. He takes refuge in drinking with his friends.

Kathakali helps Kunjikuttan transcend his pain and express all the strength of his emotions. Here Kunjikuttan meets Subadhra. She is a young woman married into high society and seems to be lost within her closed world, in which she can no longer distinguish between reality and fiction. She is consumed by the passion she feels for the hero of the Mahabharata Epic, Arjuna, as she truly believes that her first name is predestined: Subhadra is he lover of Arjuna and the mother of their son, the child prodigy Abhimanyu. She falls in love, not with Kunjikuttan, but with Arjuna whom he embodies on stage.

Kunjikuttan is deeply distressed by his relationship, even more so when Subhadra announces that she is pregnant with his child. However, she isolates herself, refusing to see Kunjikuttan or even open the numerous letters that he sends her. Nevertheless, she does bring their son, whom she named Abhimanyu, to one of Kunjikuttan's performances in order to see him in the arms of his father dressed as Arjuna. Kunjikuttan is devasted, being a son deprived of his father, and now a father deprived of his son.

Kunhijuttan's life is falling apart. He receives news of Namboodiri's death along with a will which asks him to perform the funeral rites an eldest son owes to his father. He also learns that his former Kathakali master is stricken with partial paralysis and that Vasu has developed throat cancer. Surrounded by these signs of death, he decides to go to Benares where Pishardi, his childhood mentor, has gone to prepare for death. This is the time of introspection. Pishardhi, expresses his wish that Kunjikuttan perform the funeral rites for his as well. The question of the identity of his father strongly surges again. Returning home, he learns that Vasu is gone. He decides to give one last performance as Arjuna, this time with his daughter playing Subhadra. They perform in the childhood home of Subhadra. She, deeply moved by their performance, leaves before the end. Thereafter, Kunjikuttan disappeared, but not before sending a last letter to Subhadra.

He draws inspiration for his fourth movie from a Malayalam short story 'Gomathy Ammayude Veedu'. It is written by Dr Valsalan Vathussery. The film, in Hindi, will be shot in Himachal Pradesh. The film is about terrorism and its related aspects. The title role is done by Rajat Kapoor (Making of the Mahatma fame). It is funded by Zee TV network.