| Vidheyan | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
| Screenplay by | Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
| Story by | Paul Zacharia |
| Produced by | K. Raveendran Nair |
| Starring | Mammootty Tanvi Azmi Sabitha Anand Aliyar M.R. Gopakumar |
| Cinematography | Mankada Ravi Varma |
| Edited by | M. Mani |
| Music by | Vijay Bhaskar |
Release date | 1993 |
Running time | 112 mins |
| Country | Template:Film India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Vidheyan (English: The Servile, Malayalam: വിധേയന്) is a 1993 Indian film directed and co-written by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It is a cinematic adaptation of the novel Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia. The film explores the master-slave dialectic in a South Karnataka setting. Mammootty plays the lead role in the film, who received several accolades for his work.
Thommy, a Christian migrant labour from Kerala is an obedient slave of his aggressive, tyrannical landlord Bhaskara Pattelar. Thommy obeys all the orders of his master, whether it is to make his own wife sexually available to his master or in killing Pattelar's kindly wife, Saroja. When Pattelar escapes to a jungle, due to his own deeds, Thommy escorts him like a pet. But when Pattelar gets killed Thommy exults in freedom.Though movie is critically acclaimed it did not perform well in box office
