Swapaanam: The Chenda Rolls On (Mal) - Film Review
If you enjoy Shaji N Karun's typical slow-paced films, this one is watchable. Kudos to Jayaram and Siddique | Subhash Sabu, Yentha.com
Here it is finally. Jayaram's best bet for that elusive national/state award - Swapaanam.
Swapaanam is nowhere near Shaji N Karun's best works, Piravi or Vaanaprastham. Even when he manages to weave the cobwebs around a chenda artist's life with panache, the story remains clichéd, with some incidents reminding about Vaanaprastham, Nadan and Bharatham. Here too the artist in Unnikrishnan Maraar (Jayaram) falls into an extra-marital affair, something which is not alien to the industry.
Swaaanam tracks the life of the schizophrenic chenda artist Unnikrishnan maraar, his tryst with love, lust, jealousy, society, profession and his self - flying around like a kite out of control! Several conflicts, be it the one between him and his mother, that with his life, lover, guru, and astrologer competes to overpower the rest.
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