The Malayalam VCD Production Kolaveri – Adoor Bhasi’s surgery

Along with one of life’s ( the average Malayali’s) mind-numbing mysteries of shoving VCDs down the throat of the hapless cinephile is the equally dark and mystical world of the ‘editor’ who tries to dismember and pack a conventional movie into two a 2-disc VCD set which sometimes lead to horrifying results. In the long list of dismemberment, disembowelment and plain lobotomies that have  left me very, very angry ( without much use, may I add) is a recent surgery committed by someone at the production center on a movie  I deeply cherish, Aadyakiranangal (brought out by HORIZON AUDIO and VIDEO) on Adoor Bhasi, whose presence has a historic significance in the movie. Who in their right minds would do this, I don’t have the faintest idea. Is it that the ones who markup and delete content from the master file have absolutely NO idea about what they have just erased forever ? Let me explain.