Perhaps, life is not that easy and simple for those who realize and analyze their day to day life and surroundings.

kathavaseshan begins with, the protagonist, Gopinath (played by Dileep), an engineer by profession, gets up in the morning as every one does, freshens himself up, reads the daily news paper and commits suicide. In fact, here he cannot be considered as the protagonist as he is not leading he plot, which instead is carried by the stories about him, told by those who were near to him. So, after the first scene the protagonist is dead and only the stories about him survive and this explains the title. From the stories narrated by his uncle, sister, so many old friends who had worked and walked with him, The girl with whom he was in love for a long period, a thief, a police officer, a driver, his servant and a camera man we learn that the hero was a very ordinary human, politically active, sensitive to his surroundings and behaved adequately to situations. This is significant in a society where people are becoming more and more self oriented. This reminds me of an incident that happened in Kerala a few years back. A mad man killed another man, by holding his head under water, while so many people were watching. No one from the spectators responded and some guys even took the photographs and were published in next day’s news paper.

The director knows that he is trying to provoke a numb society, inactive in all kinds of social action and thought. T. V.Chandran, had done this earlier in films like Susanna and Danny. I very much like his movie language and his method of composing shots. Most of the acting appears to be so artificial and that is deliberate too, for a plot like this. The movie is set as an investigation to the reasons behind his suicide, carried out by his fiancée portrayed here by Jyothirmayee. All characters and incidents revolve around this investigation and take us to the final scene, where we are told the reason for his suicide, and we (at least those who think) admit that we do feel the same shame and helplessness in many occasions in our life. (I don’t think i am revealing a plot point here as the director himself had revealed it before the releasing of the movie, in his interviews.) This movie is also significant in other way as well, that is Kerala, though it is called as the God’s own country, happens to be the place where highest number of suicides are recorded each year.

an interesting review by Roby Kurian

Nice sript and direction.

But Dileep was horrible.

I do not intend to offend you by these comments, but am trying to justify the movie from my perspective. Thanks.

PS. Kindly ignore the smilies.

I agree with what you say about all those incidents. Same type of incidents over and over again. The incident of the Andhra guy, where he leaves his daughter’s dead body with Dilip and attends the wedding, looked very weird. Would anyone do that??