IN THE SHADE OF A LEAF

ORILATHANALIL

By Asok R NATH

SHREE MAULI CREATIVE MARKETING - as SALES All rights, World

Environmental - Completed 2020

Achuthan learned the value of nature when he lost his palms. Then he realized the true purpose of his existence. He wanted to change the world...without palms...

Festivals
& Awards

Durban 2021
Selected
Sacramento 2021
Selected
Madrid 2021
Selected
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Environmental, Biography
    • Countries
    • INDIA
    • Languages
    • MALAYALAM
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 91 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Asok R NATH
    • Writer(s)
    • Sajith RAJ
    • Producer(s)
    • Sandeep R (SAHASRARA CINEMAS)
    • Synopsis
    • SYNOPSIS

      IN THE SHADE OF ONE LEAF is set in a picturesque village called ‘Kakkamukku’ and evolves around Achuthan whose palms were lost in a freak accident. Achuthan starts designing farm tools customized for his palm-less hands and starts working relentlessly to learn, understand and enhance nature. He creates a favourable environment for birds and other living organisms, clears plastic waste, extracts and collects the best seeds and does a host of other things all by himself, with no expectation in return. This makes Achuthan an object of ridicule sometimes with his neighbors and other villagers.
      The narrative starts with Achuthan or ‘Seedy’ as people of the village call him, taking his stillborn baby to Peppattikunnu hill and leaving it to the buzzards there, as there’s no provision for stillborn babies to have a decent burial in the existing societal scenario prevalent there. Achuthan realises that all questions have answers embroidered into the various layers of nature. However, his love for nature was not accepted well by the village folks. His own wife had been fed up of his eccentric behaviour. Slowely he developed several enemies in his own village.
      Achuthan’s wife has a genetic condition where her placenta is too weak to nourish a child to a healthy birth and that is what results in a couple of stillborn babies that shatter her. Achuthan had found the answer to his problems from nature and he uses this knowledge to overcome the genetic problem of his wife.
      A Brazilian scientist, Veronica, who is doing extensive research on the phenomenon of locusts, finds out that a man without hands had created an ecosystem that wasn’t conducive to a raid by the locusts. The publication of the research makes Achuthan a hero overnight and his life becomes a discussion point and an example for all.
      Then something good happened. Achuthan’s wife Manju became pregnant again without any earlier complications. Achythan took her to a good hospital in city. Achythan’s enemies decided to make use of the opportunity and set fire on his farm house and storage house. Achuthan was shocked and dejected when he returned from the city. He decided to leave the village with his family. Then decides to stay on and show the world that his willpower cannot be destroyed. The narrative ends with Achuthan showing the world again how to deal with adversity in tune with nature.