While Agnisakshi (1998) deals with the strained marital relationship of a Brahmin couple against the charged background of social reform and the Independence struggle, Akale (2004) depicts an Anglo-Indian family whose members keep failing to understand or communicate with one another.

Ore Kadal is the sensitive study of Deepti, a middle class housewife, who is irresistibly drawn to a radical intellectual, Nathan. As the affair grows in passion and intensity, Deepti's mounting sense of guilt pushes her towards mental instability. Her husband and children are caught unawares in her emotional conflict and her return to sanity only adds to her inner torment. Destiny had brought them together, searing passion would tear them apart.

Based on a classical Bengali novel, Ore Kadal is set in an India that is moving rapidly towards globalization – a background where socio-cultural changes are overturning age-old value systems of the middle class so swiftly that the dividing lines between right and wrong, loyalty and betrayal, honesty and deceit, grow increasingly blurred, trapping the two protagonists in a limbo of self-torture they must live with.

Outstanding performances by two of Kerala's ace actors, Mammootty and Meera Jasmine, and Ouseppachan's evocative musical score contribute richly to the power of this poignant film. Ore Kadal was shot mostly in Chennai in the month of March 2007. In Malayalam with English subtitles.

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INDIA • 2007 • 100 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: SHYAMAPRASAD