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1983 is a 2014 Indian Malayalam-language coming-of-age sports film directed by fashion photographer Abrid Shine, who wrote the story and co-wrote the script with Bipin Chandran.[1][2] The film, produced under the banner of Shams Films, stars Nivin Pauly in the lead role. Anoop Menon, Nikki Galrani, Joy Mathew, Srinda Arhaan, Jacob Gregory, Saiju Kurup, Shine Tom Chacko, Dinesh, Sui Joseph, Neeraj Madhav and Sanju, make up the rest of the cast. Pradeesh Varma cranked the camera and the music director was Gopi Sunder,[2] for which he received the 62nd National Film Awards for Best Background Score.[3]
The film is a family drama that revolves around cricket. It centers on Rameshan (Nivin Pauly) and his memories from 1983 when India won its first World Cup under Kapil Dev.[2][4][5] 1983, which is also a tribute to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, was released on 31 January and was the first success film of 2014. All the songs composed by Gopi Sunder became popular and one of them, "Olanjali Kuruvi", was a chartbuster.[6]
The film received three Kerala State Film Awards including Best Debut Director for Abride Shine, Best Actor for Nivin Pauly and Second Best Actor for Anoop Menon.[7] It is widely regarded as one of the best movies during the Malayalam New Wave.[8]
In a remote village in Kerala named Brahmamangalam, the people have a passion for cricket. From India winning their first Cricket World Cup in 1983, to present times, the story follows the father-son relationship of two generations. As a teenager Rameshan is passionate about cricket and performs well in his academics. His father wants his son to become an engineer one day. Rameshan is in love with Manjula, who is studying in the same school. He is part of a local cricket team, formed by his close friends, and wins many local tournaments with his above par performance in batting. However, with time his academic results turn very poor and he even fails his 12th Board exams. Even if he fails in his academics, his love for the game remains the same and his father continues to protest against this. His love interest, Manjula, is very good at her studies and joins another college for higher education.
Rameshan joins his father in running an electrical workshop and lives a modest life. His love for game continues all this while. Eventually, he loses his lover who marries an Indian-American. A depressed Rameshan is encouraged by his friends and family to marry a girl from the same village. His wife, Susheela, is ignorant about cricket to such an extent that she doesn't know Sachin Tendulkar. Rameshan is blessed with his son, Kannan, who shows an interest in cricket at a very young age. Rameshan still plays cricket and starts coaching his son. Rameshan wants his son to become a cricketer. He takes his son to a former state cricket player Vijay Menon's sports academy. Rameshan faces many financial problems to support his son's coaching. His wife helps him against his mother's wishes. After some days unfortunately Vijay wants to go to Chennai, as he was called by his senior coach Chandrakant and he wants Vijay to be with him to take responsibility of his cricket coaching club. For a better future for Kannan, Vijay advises Rameshan to join the cricket academy of his friend. But Kannan could get the selection in order to join the academy. But he fails to get the selection as the ball strikes on the back tail and he gets injured.
Rameshan's father and son play a vital role in his life and eventually his father gives him his support to pursue his love for cricket. At the end, Rameshan, with the help of his father, makes a bowling machine to help his son play pace. After many ups and downs, Kannan gets selected for the Under-14 district team. Like how he loved the cricket now his son also loves cricket. The movie ends with Rameshan talking about wanting to see his son wearing India's jersey.
Entertainment site oneindia gave the film 3.5/5 stars and said "1983 is a thoroughly enjoyable entertainer which pleases your heart throughout. For almost all generations, it's a nostalgic revisit to those childhood memories, where you had played cricket with your friends, a tennis ball, wickets of stick, and a bat carved from leaf stalk".[11]
The movie also shows how hard it is for a common man who struggles to make ends meet to find his way into professional cricket which is always considered as a capitalist sport with children from big cities and better financial background having more advantage over children from villages with lesser privileges. The movie shows how Rameshan draws inspiration from MS Dhoni, who emerged as a player from a small village in Jharkhand to become a World Cup winning captain of India, and uses it to help his son gain confidence for cricket selection.
The movie is treated in a light hearted manner with humorous and emotional moments. It ends on a positive note with Rameshan managing to help his son get a place in the sub junior district cricket team amidst adversities. Nivin Pauly won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor and Abrid Shine won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Debut Director for 1983 in 2015.
In Kattathe Kilikkoodu (1983), a Kerala State Award winning film, 'Shakespeare' Krishnapilla, a respected English professor, walks out of his idyllic marriage, leaving a doting wife and four children behind. In Mattoral (1988), a critically-acclaimed film that came out five years later, Susheela, an unhappy housewife, flees her dysfunctional marriage, leaving a distant husband and two children behind.
The two films came out within a few years of each other and were expertly handled by acclaimed directors Bharathan and K.G.George respectively. Both portray upper middle class, nuclear families that are blown apart by forces internal and external. But the treatment of each and the consequences for the straying spouses and the people in their lives, are dramatically different.
At first glance, you may think that Susheela in Mattoral (played by Seema) has ample reason to want an escape. From the first scene in the film, the silence in the house speaks volumes. Kaimal (Karamana Janardanan Nair), Susheela's husband, is a senior government official getting ready for work. Susheela moves in and out of the scene, handing him towels, laying out his clothes, and preparing his breakfast. For a full four minutes, until he gets into his car and drives away, they do not exchange a word or even look each other in the eye. Yet, you instinctively know this is not because of a lover's spat. This is how everyday life is in Susheela's household.
In contrast, Professor Krishnapilla (played by Bharat Gopy, who won Best Actor for this role) inhabits a home full of companionable noise and chaos. He, his wife Sharada (Sreevidya), and four children, all sleep on the same bed in a cozy tangle of arms and legs. It is every bit a kilikkoodu (bird's nest) as the title suggests. Here too, the wife brings him tea and towels, but there is playful banter and genuine affection between them.
Over the next hour, both movies slowly unravel the events that lead to the betrayal. In Mattoral, the claustrophobia of Susheela's life becomes evident with the arrival of a younger couple, Balan and Veni (played by Mammootty and Urvashi). Balan is an old friend of Kaimal's and they have presumably worked together. Unlike Kaimal, Balan is a liberal. He and Veni lead independent lives and he actively encourages her to find work and go out.
Veni is a free spirit and soon finds a job at an ad agency run by Mahesh (Murali). In a telling scene, she comes looking for Susheela to borrow some money. "I want to get some new clothes for my new job and I don't want to ask Balan. I'll pay you back when I get my salary." Susheela is embarrassed by Veni's presumption that she will have any money of her own. Squatting in the backyard washing clothes, she has to confess to the young, well-dressed Veni that all money matters are handled by Kaimal. Once upon a time, she too had wanted to work but Kaimal had not approved. "Veni parakkukayanallo!" Susheela says wistfully. "Yes, I like to fly. I have got wings!" Veni exclaims, caught up in the excitement of her life, and skips out of Susheela's.
The next thing we know, Kaimal is coming back to an empty house and despondent children who don't know where their mother is. At first bewildered, then angry, Kaimal goes out on an aimless search. Later that night, when he is sitting in the semi-darkness with Balan, a boy comes bearing a message from Susheela. She has left Kaimal and eloped with Giri, a local mechanic. She will not be coming back.
But slowly, his defences loosen. The movie has multiple readings from Othello and I was reminded of Agatha Christie's Three Act Tragedy in which she exclaims, "Yes, Othello dazzled Desdemona with his tales of adventure. But did she not, equally, enthrall him with her rapt listening, her hero worship?" That is what Asha goes for. She sighs and looks at him with soulful eyes and plays the role of a lovelorn Shakespearean heroine, until Krishnapilla is utterly smitten. When Asha is chastised by her aunt, she packs a bag and leaves, and the professor defies his wife to find her a room to stay at the YWCA. Later, after an ugly confrontation with Sharada, he too storms out of his house and into a hotel.
There is tragedy in both affairs. Susheela realizes very soon that she has exchanged not only a large house with a yard, a maid, and a car for two rooms in a shady locality, but also one toxic relationship for another. Giri makes it clear that she is no more than a fling. On their first night together, he mocks her reluctance to sit down and eat with him, calling her a'salguna sambannayaya bharya (a virtuous wife). The character's name Susheela, no doubt chosen deliberately, also means a woman of virtue.
We watch, fascinated, their silhouettes through the curtain, Giri's head looming large over Susheela's, his jaws rhythmically chomping thattukada chicken while hers is small, bowed as if in shame. The same perturbing silence pervades in all her scenes with Giri, even when he brazenly brings home another girl he is sleeping with. Susheela, it seems, has run out of words.
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