Chakoram is one of those few underrated movies that deserves to be discussed. Shanti Krishna as Sharadhamani leads a rough life after having abandoned by her siblings for whom as she says, she sacrificed her life. Hence, the abandoned pheasant is forced to play the role of a dutiful parent and a loving yet a tough sibling. However, her reasons for not solving the issues of her life and excuses spring thereof for not finding a male companion to support herself, cannot be accepted. Interestingly, we see her projecting her inability to solve the affairs of her life upon others. If she wanted she could solve her problems by her own without waiting for an angel like savior, Lance Naik Mukundan Menon.
Perhaps by locking herself up, she was revolting against herself, making it impossible for love to enter her life. Anyway, emotional inability that makes one incapable of leading his/her own life will be seen as nothing but ignorance by a modern viewer. It is only the individual's responsibility to uplift himself/herself.
Murali for his part played the role deftly. The character was safe in his hands. The charm of his personality is difficult to be untouched by anyone be it someone like Sharadamani, the Unniyarcha of our movie. Had it not been for its premodern and self destructive elements (which we see very often in the movies of Lohitha Das), Chakoram could have been something else. Thus the movie ends up being a contradictory statement upon what it made us feel it stood for.
