Vadakkumnadhan

Bharathan is a university teacher. He lectures in Sanskrit. He is also taken up with astrology and Kathakali. His family is to marry him to his cousin Meera. Both sides have agreed and a day has been set. But on the wedding day the groom is nowhere. The man has disappeared. For years no word comes from him. In the end the family assume he has died. One day his mother sets off on a pilgrimage. In the foothills of the Himalayas she comes upon her son. So the man returns home. Then papers come out of a locked suitcase. The papers show that he had been under treatment. Bharathan lives with bipolar disorder. Mohanlal and Padmapriya Janakiraman take the leads in Shajoon Kariyal’s Indian film of 2006.