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Veeraputhran, director P T Kunhi Mohammed tries to resurrect the legend of freedom fighter Mohammed Abdul Rahiman, who was relegated to the footnotes of history by colonial historians. The young Muslim leader of Malabar rose to prominence in 1921 and died at the age of 48, in 1945, under suspicious circumstances.
Narain plays the lead character in P T Kunhi Mohammed's screenplay which takes the easy route of flashbacks. Sarath Kumar is seen as an academician in a cameo prompting his students to help him research the life of the freedom fighter by giving them a brief account of his life and times. Numerous poets and writers have been inspired by him and based their creations on him.
The story depicts the young leader's political progress interspersed with his tragic personal life where he is shown as a young widower who refused to marry again as he was so deeply in love with his first wife Kunji Beevathu (Raima Sen). He even carries one of her saris in his luggage in her memory.
Mohammed Abdul Rahiman is shown as a lover of animals and birds (we have a digitally generated deer and a few birds to underscore this), though he uses a tiger skin as a blanket. These details are given prominence over the political events.
So, from the KPCC convention in 1921, to suffering brutalities
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at the hands of the police in the various jails of South India and fighting for the rights of political prisoners, events tend to move in a jiffy. Rahiman makes his followers take the path of Gandhian non-violence and sets up the