Get ready for a divine war of fantasy

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">MALAMPUZHA: Creativity knows no death. It thrives even in destruction. In fact, it''s destruction that brings the best creative forms. Be it a short story, poetry, painting or film. And, it gets more leg space, when one re-creates a world known only in myths.<br /><br />If you''ve doubts, ask Vinayan, veteran Malayalam film director who''s carving out a Gulliver''s world with a slight variation – <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Athbudhadweepu </span>(The Wonder Island) – slated for release in March. His earlier films <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">''Vellinakshathram'', ''Dadasaheb'', ''Karumadikkuttan'', ''Ooma Payyanu Uriyada Pennu'', ''Vasanthiyum, Lakshmiyum jnanum'' </span>and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">''Kasi''</span>, as could be recalled, were super-hits.<br /><br />Presently, he brings to life an unknown island (somewhere behind Lakshadweep), which has a rare population of beautiful Brobdingnagian women compared to their Lilliputian male counterparts who speak Malayalam. They lead a quiet life like any other in the normal world packed with love and hatred, desires and disappointments, beliefs and deceptions, peace and war.<br /><br />Problems begin when an Indian Navy helicopter crashes there leaving behind six of its occupants with minor injuries. Of them two are caught by the Lilliputians and killed. Four escape before taking shelter in a temple dedicated to Gandharva.<br /><br />"Men here believe they became dwarfs on account of Gandharva''s curse. Hence, only females are allowed to enter the temple. During one visit to temple, king''s daughter spots one of the ''invaders'' and mistakes him for Gandharva. For, the islanders believe, besides their womenfolk, Gods and Ghosts alone were of normal height" Vinayan explains and adds she gets the real shock on being told men around the world were actually taller like the women of her island.<br /><br />The princess who''s to marry a dwarf in the near future develops a soft corner for ''pseudo-Gandharva'', which develops into a love affair. Soon, their hush-hush meetings become news resulting in a stand off between the short and tall.<br /><br />Will the princess succeed in convincing her father? Will the dwarfs get over their inferiority complex by giving away one of their finest women in marriage to an abnormal being, nevertheless handsome? Or will the princess forsake her maiden love realising beauty is only skin-deep?<br /><br />Vinayan, of course, is telling an unusual story where dwarfs live with the eternal hope that Lord Gandharva will restore them with their normal physiques if not today, tomorrow. Though, it''s a humor-oriented film, Vinayan is weaving it with an intricate touch of internal agony that torments the lives of dwarfs and their eternal hope that rises with the crimson sun, every day, only to sink again into the Arabian sea at a distant horizon.<br /><br />Vinayan has enlisted the talents of 250 dwarfs to act in the film. "Nobody has made such an attempt. There''re about 70 dwarf characters in the film. When it comes to climax, we''ll have 450 dwarfs", he says.<br /><br />So, hold your breath till March to witness this divine war of fantasy, which even the Hollywood has not experimented before.</div> </div>