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തമ്പു് (1978)
Across a dirt road, the circus truck comes to a village. The tent goes up. Schoolboys run to the tent. Village women come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop across a tightrope. A lion leaps from the edge of one stool - across darkness - on to another stool. A gap-toothed old woman gazes at a goat on a tight rope; her eyes are wide with curiosity. For three days the circus makes small ripples in the life of this village. Municipal permits are required. At a toddy shop, a soldier befriends the circus strongman; a pump attendant sits on a rock each day watching a village girl bathe and dry her hair. The dwarf brings back to the circus a watermelon larger than his head. In the film's three days, we, the viewers, learn the geography of the village: the banyan treewith leaves like transparent film, the shining water, the light on the sand at sunset. When the circus leaves the village, it leaves us. The narrative says: The circus comes and leaves; life goes on.
Updated May 30 2020
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Cast
Gopi
Circus Manager
V. K. Sreeraman
Jalaja
Crew
Shaji N. Karun
Director of Photography
M. G. Radhakrishnan
Music
M. G. Radhakrishnan
Playback Singer
Govindan Aravindan
Director
Govindan Aravindan
Writer
C.P. Padmakumar
Art Direction
Kavalam Narayana Panicker
Lyricist
K. Ravindranathan Nair
Producer
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