Pilgrimage (Theerthdanam)

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World Premiere Based on Vaanaprastham, a novelette by multi-award-winning writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Pilgrimage is an exquisite story of love-a love kept immaculate through the years by a couple destined to stay apart. When retired schoolteacher, Karunan Master, and his old student, Vinodini, meet after more than three decades, they find that their unfulfilled love for each other is as strong as ever. Though both know that if seen together, there will be unpleasant consequences, they embark on a journey to the Kudajadri hill in Karnataka, where their touching romance links them to the past, to a resigned future, and more than anything else, to the what-might-have-beens-the what-should-have-beens-of life. Kudajadri, a place of stunning natural beauty and unmistakable spiritual aura, provides the backdrop for the unfolding story of G.R. Kannan's mesmerizing new feature. "The past always comes back to you-either as memories or as the changed realities of the present. This movie is about how people deal with this and the associated feelings of helplessness or nostalgia." - Reviewed by G.R. Kannan