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Debutante director Subrahmanyam Shantakumar's Mankolangal, which won for its maker the Kerala State award for the best Debutante director, is indeed a film worth seeing and worth mentioning. Produced under the banner of Hrishikesh Films, the film is, according to the director," a team work" and meanders into the world of the Kumbhars, the potter community of Kerala. At the same time, it tells the story of exploitation and betrayal too.

Alagiri is sort of a maverick among the potters. The story begins when Alagiri brings home a young girl Sita as his new wife. There had been many women who had stayed with him, but none had stayed for long. Sita, who has already suffered much, reconciles herself to her new life with Alagiri. But still her past haunts her.

In the neighborhood, live Kumaran and his wife Maalu with their only daughter Mallika. The film also takes a look into their life. Kumaran, a drunkard and his family has got nothing out of their family profession, i.e., pottery, except poverty and debts. The story of Kumaran and his family is told on a parallel track with that of Alagiri. In the meantime Sita is thrashed and thrown out of the house by Alagiri on a rather trivial matter.

Beena Antony Alagiri brings in another girl, Vishaalam, whom he later drives away. The film also throws light on financiers and their middlemen who enter the lives of these poor potters-who are sort of an endangered species consequent to industrialization-and advance loans etc and assure them of securing for their wares an international market.

They do find a market, but the potters are least benefited out of it. They end themselves in debt and all, while the middlemen make the most of it, getting monetary benefits as well as the potter's womenfolk. The potters sometimes even lose all their properties and possessions, which they have pledged to the financiers. Mankolangal etches all this in a touching manner and ends with the tragic end of Kumaran and Malu.

But still the film ends on a note of hope, with a message of humanity and kindness.Manikantan plays the role of the maverick Alagiri very well while Beena Antony fits in the bill as Sita. Viplavam Balan as Kumaran, Seema.G.Nair and Baby Seena as Mallika have done full justice to their respective roles.

A highlight of the film is excellent script work by Viju Verma and Manikantan, which of course forms the real backbone so strong a comment on so sensitive a subject. Madhu Dev's music, Praveen Panicker's cinematography and editing by Ajith Kumar and Vijay Kumar are added attractions of the film. Though it is much likely that Mankolangal does not become a big box office event, it surely is a film that one should not miss seeing. The film is indeed a very bold statement on contemporary life and society.