Refusila (1969) , produced by the Architecture students of the Grupo Experimental de Cine (GEC), offers a chronicle of the social outbreak of 68 through a male and a female voice that imitate the rhetoric and style of radio journalism. This story alternates with silent pauses in which the “ticking” of a clock dramatizes and reinforces the atmosphere of tension. As we get to the month of August, while we see images of student mobilizations, the voices in overthey announce by way of headlines: “250 thousand people fired Líber Arce. New incidents between students and police. Priests denounce the state of violence on the continent.
Chinna Durai(V. K. Ramaswamy) dislikes his brother-in-law, Kanagasabi(V. S. Raghavan) stands in the way of a marriage arrangement for his daughter Malathy(Vanisri) and Kanagasabi's son Ravi(Jaishankar).
Neena lives a poor lifestyle along with her parents. Her marriage is arranged with a wealthy male, but the marriage could not take place as her parents are unable to provide enough dowry.
Paris 1900. Sharing a house in the Bohemian District are Roberto, a fledgling Musician, who is composing an Opera with his friend the poet Victor Duval; and the beautiful Cossette, daughter of a retired tenor, who goes up and down the stairs, taking advantage of Roberto's music to train her voice.
A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter warns him that the king will surely want him to bring a corresponding pestle as well.
AVM Rajan the protagonist lives in a joint family is an easy going guy. Unfortunately AVM Rajan's father loses his eyesight in an accident and family struggles financially to run daily life.
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