Mohanlal is the narrator of Edavela, a short film on Mukharagam performed by Kathakali artists. He shared the 80-second trailer, titled "EDAVELA - a sacred pause", on X today. It is on the TRIDHA YouTube channel.
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What Mukharagam is
The makers describe Mukharagam as an ancient breathing art, passed quietly from one generation to the next. In their words, it works in the pause between breaths, between movement and stillness. The film moves through the nine Navarasa emotions, with Kathakali artists playing figures from the Mahabharata.
Film: Edavela (short documentary)
Narrator: Mohanlal
Direction and script: Viraja and Shyamjith Kiran
Producer: Tridha Arts
Featuring: Sadanam P V Balakrishnan
Sound design: Resul Pookutty
Cinematography: Kalki
Music: Rakesh Pazhedam
Editor: Rajkumar
Release: Not announced
Who is in Edavela
Veteran Kathakali artist Sadanam P V Balakrishnan features in the film. Oscar winner Resul Pookutty handles the sound design. Sadanam Vivek and Sivaranjini Sivadas sing, and Sadanam Ramakrishnan and Sadanam Devadas play percussion. The Kathakali artists include Kalamandalam Prashanth, Kalamandalam Adithyan and Kalamandalam Sibi Chakravarthy.
Back to Kathakali
For Mohanlal, Edavela is a return to Kathakali about 27 years after Shaji N Karun's Vanaprastham (1999). He played Kathakali artist Kunjikuttan in that film and won the National Award for Best Actor for the role.
On the big screen, he was last seen as Mathew in Jailer 2.
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