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Gaddama (Khaddama) Malayalanm DVD
Kavya Madhavan, Sreenivasan, Murali Gopy, Suraaj Venjaramoodu, Biju Menon, Jaffer Idukki, Lena, Sukumari.
Produced by P.V.Pradeep
Directed By Kamal
Music by Bennett Veetraag
Background score by M.Jayachandran
Lyrics by Rafeek Ahamed
Cinematography by Manoj Pillai
Story by K.U.Iqbal
Screenplay by K.Gireesh Kumar, Kamal
Dialogues by K.Gireesh Kumar
Gaddama (Khaddama)- A Desert Journey is what it was expected to be, a poignant tale of a housemaid working in the gulf. The film is a really good effort, coming from Kamal, the maker of many memorable films.
Kamal endeavours to tell the story of Aswathy (Kavya Madhavan), who reaches the Gulf to work as a Khaddama (housemaid). It’s Usman (Suraaj Venjaramoodu) who had arranged her visa and she comes to work in the same house where Usman works as a driver. There is another Indonesian girl working there as a Khaddama. Aswathy’s life is not that easy in the Gulf, but she endures it all as she has a family to support, back at home in Kerala. It was after her husband had died, shortly after her marriage, that she was forced to take to the Gulf. In the meantime, an affair between Usman and the Indonesian girl is discovered and problems erupt. Usman is sent away and the Indonesian girl locked up and beaten. On being requested by Usman over phone, Aswathy helps the girl escape. Aswathy’s problems begin here and at a stage when it all becomes unbearable, she escapes from the house. Then begins a new ordeal for the hapless Khaddama.
Parallel to the main plot runs the story of a social worker Razack (Sreenivasan), who goes about helping Indians in the Gulf. When he comes to know of the story of Aswathy from a newspaper guy, he goes out hunting for her, as she is missing after having reportedly fled her sponsor’s house with money and jewellery. There is also the story of Bharathan (Murali Gopy), who happens to meet Aswathy after she flees her employer. Bharathan has been in the Gulf for about 15 years and has reached nowhere. At a stage his fate gets linked with Aswathy’s. The film tackles this in a sensitive manner.
Gaddama (Khaddama) thus happens to be a good film, with the theme executed in a neat manner. But it’s not likely to be a big thing at the box office. Heroine-oriented films rarely make it big at the box office in Kerala. The subject too is not the usual box office stuff.