Pichaikkaran
A spiritually-inflected drama about sacrifice and maternal love, where a privileged man's radical self-denial becomes an act of devotion and redemption.
A rich man chooses to lead the life of a beggar for 48 days in the hope that his mother, who is on her deathbed, will recover.
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