Oppol ’ (‘Elder Sister’) expose society’s double standards.
Kuttiyettathi ’ (‘Little Big Sister’) and ‘ Iruttinte Athmavu ’ (‘Soul of Darkness’), ‘ They raise troubling questions about contemporary society and its synthetic values. Many of his screenplays are adaptations of his widely acclaimed short stories. Three more of his films won National Awards. Nirmalyam, won the National Award for Best Feature Film in 1973 and it remains a classic. In a way, his literary and film careers have complemented each other. is also an accomplished filmmaker and script-writer. He humanises the tough war hero by highlighting his emotional trauma in a compelling work that brings Bhima to life. Randamoozham (Second Turn), where he recreates the story of Bhima, the marginalised Pandava from the In 1984, he produced another masterpiece, remains one of its most versatile writers. Notwithstanding his preoccupation with themes that relate to traditional Kerala society and its underlying conflicts, M.T. The transformation was the result of a composite movement evolving within the triangle of the freedom struggle, a social revolution and cultural renaissance. Yet his characters are bold and irreverent, raising dissenting voices in a conformist society.įor M.T., Kudallur was the laboratory of the transformation that overtook Kerala in the second half of the 20th century. sensitively portrays in his three early novels. It is the pain and pathos, loneliness and frustration of those days that M.T. Poverty and unemployment were widespread. The Gulf boom was still a few decades away and digital technology had not yet arrived. Kerala in the first half of 20th century was a world apart. It is a shadowy world of exploitation, unashamed male domination and caste-driven prejudices. That economy has been built on a feudalistic social structure. The centrepiece of his fiction, Kudallur is a picturesque little village that is a microcosm of Kerala’s agrarian economy. M.T’s huge popularity, bordering on adulation, owes largely to the way he presents the social history of Kerala in his works. remains unchallenged as the lone superstar of Malayalam letters. Vijayan and Madhavi Kutty (Kamala Das) gone, M.T. has been the presiding deity of Malayalam fiction. But then, no novelist after Thakazhi has captured the Malayalee imagination as profoundly as M.T.įor over 50 years now, M.T.
Not since the legendaryĬhemmeen has a Malayalam novel aroused such intense curiosity as M.T’s unborn fiction, which will be arriving 17 years after his last work. Vasudevan Nair, or M.T., as he is popularly known. Lovers of Malayalam literature are eagerly looking forward to the next novel from M.T.
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