V.M. Vinu's Pen Pattanam is a tale of four women living life on their own terms | Pen Pattanam Reviews

 Malayalam cinema may have produced some of the finest women centric films in India, but their numbers have seen a drastic change in the last decade or so. Sadly, film like parinayam, Susanna, Innallenkil Nale, Kazhakam, Chakoram, Desadanakili Karayarilla, Adaminte Vaariellu, Perumazhakalam, Achuvinte Amma have become a rarity.

So, VM Vinu's Pen Pattanam, which opened yesterday, comes as a pleasant surprise as the film narrates the story of four women who refuse to be defeated by fate or circumstances. The film has raised expectations because it has been written by Renjith and scripted by TA Razzak. Surprisingly, the film has been made by a director who unbashedly celebrated the central male character in his films like Balettan, Bus Conductor, and Vesham.
Dismissing any claims of Pen Pattanam being an art house film or a celebration of feminism, Vinu says he made the film to prove wrong the popular perception that women are not as strong as men.
Revathy plays Girija, a widow with two children; Shweta is Suhara, a muslim woman married to a hindu; Lalitha is Shanta, an elderly woman who provides for her lazy son and husband; Vishnupriya, the youngeest of the quartet, plays Raji, who is in love with a reformed goon.
Vinu believes small films like Pen Pattanam could offer a lifeline for the ailing Malayalam film industry.

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