B K Nair

Un propriétaire terrien, héritier d'une société féodale en décomposition, vit avec ses deux sœurs. Incapable de faire face à ses problèmes, il sombre dans la folie.

Vishwam and Sita, who resist the opposition from their families, elope and marry. The unemployed couple begin a happier married life, but soon land in a sea of perils without a source of income.

A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.

Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.