Panicker's one-act play offers with the relation of identification between an actor and his or her position. The motion takes place on the eve of the final act of the Kathakali piece Keechakavadham (The Killing of Keechaka). The occasions surrounding the efficiency uncannily echo occasions within the play. One character even claims to have killed the lead actor of the play as a result of he detested the character the person portrayed. Nevertheless, the three totally different accounts which are introduced of the identical plot are by no means resolved or reconciled with one another. Every model is accompanied by a unique model of folks music: the tune and rhythm of southern Kerala’s thampuran pattu, the pulluvan pattu and the ayappan pattu. The performers had been drawn from the theatre and from Kathakali. In southern India, with its plethora of politicians utilizing their movie photos to amass inordinate wealth and energy, Aravindan’s TV movie bears on an eminently delicate political in addition to aesthetic situation.
