Hadiyya is mainly a story of a man and two women from different parts of India. Some interesting common elements, coupled with a few twists and turns in their life bring them together.
The film tells the story of a household where several murders have happened. The plot picks up from a point many years after the killings, and what happens next.
The story depicts the sudden fall of Ashokan, the protagonist of the movie. Once a millionaire, Ashokan is subject to treachery and fraud leading him to lose everything he ever possessed. As a result, he is left with nothing and is forced to live on the streets.
Kuttiyettan (Manikandan Pattambi) who works in a bank writes letters to those in power to see to it that justice is served to the needy. His wife allows him to do as he wishes and continues to be patient.
Panicker's one-act play deals with the relation of identification between an actor and his or her role. The action takes place on the eve of the last act of the Kathakali piece Keechakavadham (The Killing of Keechaka). The events surrounding the performance uncannily echo events in the play. One character even claims to have killed the lead actor of the play because he detested the character the man portrayed. However, the three different accounts that are presented of the same plot are never resolved or reconciled with each other. Each version is accompanied by a different style of folk music: the tune and rhythm of southern Kerala’s thampuran pattu, the pulluvan pattu and the ayappan pattu. The performers were drawn from the theatre and from Kathakali. In southern India, with its plethora of politicians using their film images to acquire inordinate wealth and power, Aravindan’s TV film bears on an eminently sensitive political as well as aesthetic issue.
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