Mathilukal (1990)
What is Freedom?
120 min
Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.
- Release date
- May 18, 1990
- Country of origin
- India
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Trailer
Cast
- Mammootty as Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
- Murali as Basheer's classmate
- Ravi Vallathol as Razzaq
- Thilakan as Jail Warder
- Sreenath as Brother Jailor
- Karamana Janardanan Nair as Political leader
- M.R. Gopakumar
- Azeez as Police constable
- Babu Namboothiri as Trade union leader
- Jagannatha Varma as Judge
- K.P.A.C. Lalitha as Narayani(Voice)
- Vembayam Thampi as Thorappan
- B.K. Nair as Ammavan old convict
Crew
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan · Director
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer · Writer
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan · Writer
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan · Producer
- Mankada Ravi Varma · Cinematographer