Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal Review

Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal, the film directed by national award winner Dr. Biju had released today in Kerala. The film had Kunchacko Boban playing the lead role. The film had already become the talking point through the applause and recognitions it had got in different film festivals and also due to the theme it discusses. The central theme of the film is the highlight of this much talked about venture by the master director. The film revolves around the real life events that had happened in Kasargod district of Kerala with regard to the issue of Endosulphan related problems.

We can say that the film is probably the most disturbing movie you can see a viewer as it will make you cry out of emotional overflow. The central character of the film played Kunchacko Boban is a photographer who comes to a Village in Kasargod where people living like dead due to the disastrous effect of Endosulphan use there. The government cashew plantations in this area used Endosulphan as pesticide and that caused a terrible health and nature problem that had made a whole village or a whole area to suffer for ages due to the bad effect of that pesticide.

The film comes before us through the experience of a photographer played by Kunchacko Boban who visit that place and interacts with the people who is suffering after years of banning that pesticide. The after effects of Endosulphan usage is still there and the condition of people there shown through the film was just terrible and we will feel the tears flowing through our cheeks even without our knowledge. That is the emotional effect the visuals can make on us. The film’s narration follows past and present incidents and all comes to us through the eyes of the photographer. At first he visit there in 2001 and the photographs he took at that time lead the attention of the world to this. Later after the banning of the pesticide he visited the place in 2006 and he shocked to see that the people there still suffering with the after effects of that terrible use of pesticide once. In 2011, at Stockholm Summit of UN, when everybody wanted a global ban of EndoSulphan, India is the only country who supported its use.

The film shows us the efforts of rich people, the government bodies and people who can reap profit out of it to keep this poison here and it also thrown light to the condition of people there, ranging from children to old, who is suffering till death, without getting any aid and attention from the government who really caused this disaster.
The film had actors such as Kunchacko Boban, Prakash Bare, Nedumudi Venu, Suraj Venjarammoodu, Salim Kumar, James Bradford, Thampi Antony, Krishnan Balakrishnan, Sajeev Pillai, Krishnaprasad, Jayakrishnan, Dr.Muhammed Asheel, Anumol, Patricia Leduc, Pretti Johnson, Master Govardhan and lots of real life victims were filmed as well. No one had to act in this movie really because the real life condition was enough to make them feel the situation and plight of their fellow beings who suffering endlessly there.

MJ Radhakrishnan’s cinematography was realistic and Dr. Biju’s script was unbelievably close to the real life and we can’t distinguish between cinema and real life while watching this one. Santhosh Chandran’s music was also blended with the emotional depth of the film.

Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal is a must watch film before you die and it not for you alone. You are watching this for a cause as well. To support this will be one of the greatest thing you do in your life as the more support it gets will throw light to the plight of the victims there and the more light which gets to them will lead many to them with care and help.

Director : Dr Biju
Release Date : 4/12/2015
Cast : Kunchacko Boban, Praksha Bare, Anu Mol

Review : Harikrishnan