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Theatre: The Myth of Reality

Drama Mystery Malayalam


Cast:Rima Kallingal, Ashwathy B, Dain Davis, Sarasa Balussery, Pramod Veliyanad, Krishnan Balakrishnan
Director:Sajin Baabu
Writer:Sajin Baabu
Editor:Appu N. Bhattathiri
Camera:Syamaprakash Ms

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Between solitude, superstition and survival

FCG Member Reviewer Tusshar Sasi
Tusshar Sasi | Filmy Sasi
Sat, October 18 2025

Imagine two women in a lonely house with a large yard that benefits no one else. Would the authorities care about their two votes? In Sajin Baabu’s abstractly titled Theatre: The Myth of Reality, this is how a discussion unfolds among locals in Kerala’s backwaters as they talk about the isolated lives of a spinster named Meera (Rima Kallingal) and her mother Sharadamma (Sarasa Balussery). Their lifestyle is peculiar and far removed from the mainland. In the agriculture-based ecosystem they’ve built for themselves, the duo is surrounded by a serpent temple (kaavu) where a prayer must be performed every day.

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