Society/Art: Some Infantile Views of an Old Man on Seeing Blessey's Pranayam
It is easy to reform and revolutionise the society-contesting its conventions, defying its norms and sabotaging its values-but applying or more tersely, repeating (of course, with differences!) the same logics and practices to and in the generic field of an art-form is not that much easy-going. This is the initial and ultimate impression Blessey’s Pranayam has left in my mind. The movie tells and to some extent, celebrates the reunion between a woman and her ex-lover-husband with the consent of her present husband. The film attempts to explore the avenues of conducting multiple relationships; husband, wife and her ex-lover-husband. Setting aside the needs and desires of the flesh and body, this democratisation of human relationships moves along the axis of amity, friendship and camaraderie. This thread of the movie can be considered as an instance of radical break in the backdrop of Kerala society where age old notions of purity, loyalty and chastity still exercise determining roles in...