And more, the Raja was agitated by the unpopular revenue policy followed by the East India Company in Malabar. The British first used him against Tipu’s army and then reneged on their treaty. He had to reckon with the armies of the Mysore rulers as well as the British. ‘Pazhassi Raja’ popularly known as the Lion of Kerala isn’t well known outside Kerala, but he was one of our country’s first freedom fighters. We know about the high expectations people have on the film and are confident that we will be able to live up to it”, says the director Hariharan. “The story of ‘Pazhassi Raja’ one of our first, but least known freedom fighters, appealed to me also because it offered tremendous visual possibilities in the backdrops of the forests and the wars. This magnum opus is expected to bring out the story of the first organized revolt against British rule, led by Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja of the Padinjare Kovilakom of the Kottayam family near Thalassery in Kannur district. The movie planned with the biggest ever budget for a Malayalam movie (rumored to be more than eight crores), is produced by Gokulam Gopalan, who also consider the movie as his prestige project. Most of the important scenes of the movie are shot with four cameras working simultaneously. The movie which was in the making since May, last year is into its last session which will get completed with another 25 days of shoot. Now after 18 years from this epoch making movie, ‘Pazhassi Raja’ is slowly but steadily shaping up under the directorial ship of ace director Hariharan,to become the biggest epic movie of our times. In fact, MT Vasudevan Nair, one of the master scriptwriters of all times, had been on this thinking from the days of his ‘Oru Vadakkan Veergatha’ which came out in 1989. Pazhassi Raja movie is a historical subject.The movie is all about a King who belong to Kottayam royal family, revolt against the Britishers.pazhassi-raja1Ī movie on the life of one of the greatest of the rulers of Kerala has been in the rounds for the last two decades.
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