Aaraattu (2022) on Netflix
Neyyattinkara Gopan, a real estate tycoon, leases Edathala Mathai's 18 acres in a Palakkad village. The villagers, recovering from the 2018 floods, want it handed to the government.
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Plot summary
Muthalakotta, a village in Palakkad, is recovering from the 2018 floods through farming ventures that brought the families self-sufficiency. Four young men and an elderly man who arrived during the flood and helped them stay on, take over much of the farming from the villagers and open an ashram teaching yoga and spiritual practices. A new state mandate requires empty, unused land to be turned into farmland, so the villagers and the revenue officer Anjali ask Edathala Mathai, the village's richest man, for his 18 acres. Mathai, who wants to start a township there, leases the plot to Neyyattinkara Gopan, a real estate tycoon.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Aaraattu (2022)
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- A two-day shoot at Palakkad Town railway station for Mohanlal's Aaraattu cost ₹23.46 lakh, spent on renting six coaches from Indian Railways.
- Composer A. R. Rahman did a cameo and performed a song in Aaraattu; director B. Unnikrishnan said hiring him was difficult because he rarely appears in films, and he features in a pivotal portion.
- Director B. Unnikrishnan, Mohanlal and Udaykrishna were originally preparing a dark-subject film, but surging COVID-19 cases made its multiple-location shoot impossible; Mohanlal then suggested a "festive kind of film" and Udaykrishna developed it into Aaraattu.
- B. Unnikrishnan said ₹30 lakh was allotted for COVID-19 precautions on Aaraattu, a 60-day shoot with a larger than usual crew for pandemic standards, and cast and crew agreed to reduced remuneration because of the crisis.
