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Ropes of Fate: Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s “Shadow Kill”

June 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Culture and Ideas

Haim Watzman In the final scene of Adoor Gopalakrishnan‘s film Shadow Kill (Nizhalkuthu), a young man, dressed in black, sets out to perform his first hanging. The young man, Muthu, is the son of the hereditary executioner of the south Indian principality of Travancore. He is a Gandhian nationalist and pacifist who has made speeches [...]

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