Poster design for Malayalam Movie AKAM - International Film Festival release and Cinema hall release.Based on Malayattor Ramakrishnan’s celebrated Malayalam novel Yakshi (1969), Akam is Shalini Usha Nair’s debut feature.
It is the story of Srini, a young architect, who starts suspecting that his beautiful wife, Ragini, is a yakshi. Srini has heard of yakshis; female demons who, in the guise of lonely, mysterious and beautiful women, seduce men and drink their blood. Srini feels that his wife is not what she appears to be. When she walks, he can’t hear her steps.
Akam, the film, is a contemporary retelling of a classic that is embedded in the Malayalee psyche.
Akam, the film, is a contemporary retelling of a classic that is embedded in the Malayalee psyche.
