Lal as Divakaran (Father of Radhakrishnan).This role which won the Special Jury Award at the Kerala State Film Awards is another testimonial to his versatility. The actor who portrayed Radha, Dileep arguably presents the character in the most inimitable way. He goes into the finest details of the character, bringing out his desire for manhood and the constraints that his past lifestyle imposes on himself. The director Lal Jose should also be credited for this. Nayarambalam was sensible enough to avoid an immediate switchover to a manly Radha, and to portray his gradual transformation to manhood. It is notable that even in the closing shots, Radha keeps his feminine mannerisms, though to a milder range. The film closes with shots of Radha going for fishing, his ancestral job. After several attempts by them, he sheds his transvestism but his femininity still hangs on. He lives with Freddy and Rosy, who consider him as their lost brother. Under special circumstances, he reaches another beach, which is more developed and there he is exposed to the outer world. Even that doesn't change his feminine behaviour. Malu also is fond of Radha, and they engage in sexual activities. This is preceded by an attempt by some hooligans ( oolanmar, in Radha's terms) to molest him and his mother's advice that loving and marrying a girl would prove his manhood. He discovers that his deep affection for his childhood friend Malu, is actually love. He is constantly in the company of girls he plays their games and also gets teased by people of the village. He, instead of going fishing like other men, teaches dance to girls. To add to the situation, his father goes to jail leaving Radha to grow up with his femininity and transvestism. This induces a kind of femininity in him, even his mannerisms closely resembles women. His parents don't intervene, probably fearing the wrath of the grandmother. She even dresses him like a girl and calls him Radha, a feminine name. However, that doesn't stop her from bringing him up as a girl child. She even refuses to see the boy, however when she sees him she accepts the truth.
It shows the boy's grandmother's strong desire for a girl as her grandchild and her frustration when a boy is born. The character of Radhakrishnan, a cross-dressing man form a family of fishermen is well documented in the film. However, when Radha sees the child, he vows to raise him as a boy, ripping off the ribbon tied to his hair. In the meantime, Malu prematurely gives birth to Radha's son. But he is reminded of how his father had to suffer in jail due to murder charges, and so he spares Kumaran. Towards the end of the fight, Radha defeats Kumaran and is about to kill him. His arrival follows a fight with Kumaran.
He also learns that Malu is pregnant with Radha's child. On reaching his native shore, he discovers that his family, along with his house was brutally burned down by Kumaran. Radha is forcibly, but sadly circumcised to escape from the police on Freddy's shore. During the fight, Cleetus gets severely injured on the head. Once, he gets involved in a fight with Cleetus (Sreejith Ravi), an old enemy of Freddy, after Cleetus tries to molest Rosie. With a change in environment, he also discovers the manly element in him and starts to transform from his female mannerisms slowly. He soon becomes a part of their family, as the grandmother begins to identify him as the late Jonfy. Freddy takes him to the former's native where he is living with his sister Rosie (Bhavana) and his grandmother (Valsala Menon), who is a mental patient due to the shock of the sudden death of Freddy's other sibling, Jonfy. But he is saved by Freddy (Biju Menon), a restaurant owner, in some distant shore. Dev), a local astrologer and dumps him in deep sea. Slowly Radha’s liking for Malu turns into love and when Kumaran sees it, he beats up Radha with the help of her father (Rajan P. His best friend is Malu (Gopika) who is wooed by Kumaran (Indrajith), a local money lender and the son of the man whom Radha’s father had killed.ĭivakaran comes back from jail and is shocked to see that his only son is a good for nothing transvestite, but can do nothing about it. Radha is ridiculed among the people in the village but he is not worried and spends time with the girls singing and teaches dancing. Radha's father Divakaran (Lal) goes to jail for a murder that he accidentally commits. She calls him Radha, which becomes his nickname. There by, he becomes effeminate and milquetoast. Radhakrishnan (Dileep) is dysfunctionally brought up like a girl by his grandmother (Sukumari) who wanted a granddaughter.
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