24 May 1973
Day for Night
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Bioscope
Set in the second decade of the 20th century, this is a story of cinema entering villages of Kerala. The protagonist Diwakaran gets attracted to the new machine, bioscope, at an exhibition by Frenchman DuPont, who does bioscope shows on the coasts of Tamil Nadu.
Top Billed Cast
Murugan Diwakaran
Walter Wagner Dupont
Ramgopal Bajaj Kaimal
Nedumbaram Gopi Murugan Nair
Bharathan Najrakkal Kumaran
T. V. Gangadharan Inspector
Mekha Rajan Nilamboor Ayesha Malu
Anusha Mohan Mute girl
Kuttyedathi Vilasini Ammini
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