Gandharva kshethram is a heart touching film directed by Vincent master. The film was released in the year 1972. The film is a classic in malayalam and is a loss if not see the film. The film starts in a mystic atmosphere of an ancestal nair tharavadu where a gandharvan is said to be appeared to the young ladies of many generations. Most of them are attached to the Gandharvan in one way or another. Some of them got pregnant and gave birth to golden baby. Such Folktales are told by the tharavattamma asserting the significant role of the gandharvas in the life of the ladies of tharavadu. The lady called Lakshmi lives in such a background and she gets married to an young man who is a friend of her brother. He is a person leading urban life. She had a sudden transition from colloquial style of life to the urbanized style of life in Mumbai which is intolerable in every respect. The early stage of their life in Mumbai goes on smoothly but a crack is occurring due to the birth of child saying he was born within a period of 8 months. The husband suspected she had some illicit relation with some body else. He overlooked the child and he is growing in a secluded atmosphere. The child one day caught affected to illness. Husband was hesitant for the treatment. She decided to part with the husband saying her child is more important than husband. She returned back to her home village where she couldnot see her tharavadu which was extinct within the period. Some relatives take care of her and during the time husband returned to her village searching her. Within that period the boy got severe fever and dead. She see a child running near by having the same look of her dead child. She reached a home where she met his old gandharva who was an actual human being who accessed in her dreams of gandharva from whom she got pregnant. Her husband comes the right time and he was ready to forgive her. They meet again and the film ends.
The story is a tragic one in the second part. The life of Lakshmi and the child is mind blowing in the second part. The miserable life of the child is tearful moments. The struggle of the lady is touching the mind of the spectators.
The film is a technically perfect product as the cenematography is done so sophisticated. Every frame is lively. The film is a poem written by the camera of the veteran Vincent master. Who ever is handling the camera is irrelevant in Vincent films as the camera is fully under his control.
Sarada what to say.. is exquisitely charming in the film.. romantic in every sense. All the characters are good including that of kalamandalam kalyanikkuty amma.
The songs are exceptionally heart touching as usual in Vincent films. The combination of vayalar devarajan fired beyond limits proving the most commemorative music combination in malayalam. In one way or another, the film is a poem written by camera by Vincent master who was a gift for malayalam film industry, is immemmorabe up to the end of malayalam film industry.. Let's you watch the film and think over my reviews...