Pokkuveyil

The movie stands apart from the mainstream movies of India. A different portrait of the shattered youth of the seventies.Filmed in the background of a divine flute concert by Pandit Hariprasad Chourasia,famous Indian artist,it is a novel experience.Poet of the youths,much-adored Balachandran Chullikkad of Kerala,India plays the hero.Torn between Politics and personal tragedies,the hero suffers a lot.There is no dialog .Only occasional talks.It needs a lot of patience to follow the symphony of filming by G.Aravindan.He is known for the silence of his frames.Here,the silence is substituted with flute concert.The tragedy of the hero is presented in the colorful backdrop of a beautiful lagoon.A visual feast,so to say.

In this Film The silence is often louder than the dialogue.... The very title, Pokkuveyil (Twilight), becomes a profound metaphor throughout the film. Twilight is neither day nor night-it is a transitory, liminal space where clarity fades and shadows take over... The protagonist's unfinished canvases are metaphors for his fragmented self. As his mental world collapses, his art too becomes incomplete, chaotic, or abandoned... The fluctuating tones of the flute mirror the turbulence inside him, often becoming the only indicator of his emotional state. The flute is not just an instrument in the film-it's the invisible thread connecting his fractured inner world to the audience... Water, with its ability to both reflect and obscure, symbolizes the blurred line between memory, dream, and lived experience... Water surfaces repeatedly-ponds, reflections, rain-serving as a metaphor for the fragile boundary between reality and illusion...