Account Numb-3380.South Malabar Grameen Bank
Medical College Branch.(Calicut).

As the grease-painted stars of Malayalam movies act out the characters in well-written screenplays in various corners of tinseltown, a man who had once been the mainstay of film production finds himself living out a pitiful role he had been cast in, by a willful Fate.

Kabir is a 72 year-old who had spent more than 50 years of his life rendering yeoman service to the Malayalam Film Industry as a production executive in various units. There was a time not so long ago when Kabir was a name on every lip in the production field . From rounding up extras for a sequence to finding the ideal location for an outdoor shoot, there was little that the dedicated executive couldn’t accomplish. The resourceful Kabir who had a solution for every emergency and an answer for every crises was therefore a much sought after person and producers lined up to book his dates the same way they qued up for the call sheets of the top stars and actors.

That was the exposition, the half before the interval in the story of his life. Little did Kabir- who had toiled through the entire production schedules of comedies, family dramas, historical films etc – suspect that the script written for him by Fate would be a tragedy. Now nearing the climax of his life, he finds himself broken & bankrupt, crippled by stroke with only a fatally ill wife and a paralysed daughter for company.

Unable to make both ends meet, Kabir knocked at familiar doors for help but found that they stayed firmly shut. Except for a handful of kindly souls such as Suresh Gopi, Balachandra Menon etc the industry to which he had devoted three-quarters of his life turned a deaf ear to his pleas for assistance. They were forced to vacate the one-roomed shanty they occupied in Vizhinjam, since he was not able to pay up the rent arrears. Now the three of them spent their miserable lives in a cloth covered lean-to adjoining their former ‘residence’ that offer no protection from either the harsh summer sunshine or the impending monsoon.

But Kabir has no complaints either against the industry that jilted him or the associates who ignore him. He lives on in the certain hope that someday in the near future the Industry he had dedicated his life to, will wake up to his plight – and wipe away his tears.