Chemparathy

Chemparathy
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Directed by	P. N. Menon
Written by	Malayattoor Ramakrishnan
Produced by	S. Krishnan Nair
Starring	Madhu; Raghavan; Roja Ramani; Sudheer
Cinematography	Ashok Kumar
Edited by	Ravi Kiran
Music by	Devarajan ; ; ; ;
Country	India
Language	Malayalam ; ;

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Chemparathy (Template:Lang-en) is a 1972 Malayalam film directed by P. N. Menon and written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan.^[1]^[2] It was produced by S. K. Nair (S. Krishnan Nair), a famous literary personality and the founder of Malayalanadu weekly. It stars Madhu along with newcomers Roja Ramani, Raghavan and Sudheer in major roles. The film was an adaptation of Malayattoor's short story "Lodge". Bharathan made his cinematic debut as art director with the film.

The film won two Filmfare Awards South & Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Film in 1972.^[3] It was a notable critical and commercial success upon release. The film was remade in Tamil as Paruva Kaalam in 1974 ^[4] with Roja Ramani repeating her role and Kamal Haasan playing the male lead and also in Telugu as Kanne Vayasu.

Plot summary

Santha (Roja Ramani) is a cheerful girl who is working in a lodge as a sweeper. She is favourite to everyone in the lodge. Dinesh (Raghavan) is in love with this girl. But one day Santha is found dead in the nearby well. Police start investigation and at first arrest Balachandran (Madhu) as suspect. But later Dinesh confess to police that Rajappan (Sudheer), a rich guy living in this same lodge is the reason for Santha’s death. Rajappan raped Santha and when she become pregnant he killed her. After Santha’s death her memories haunt Dinesh and he kills Rajappan and surrender to police .