Thampu (1978)

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Movie basic details

Current status - Released
Total runtime - 129 mins.
Release date - 18-01-1978
Release year - 1978
Genres - Drama

Overall ratings and scores for Thampu:
Happiness Score - 5/10, World Popularity Score - 0.84/100, IMDB Score - 7.5, Metascore - N/A, Internet Movie Database - 7.5/10, .
Thampu movie has Total Global Votes - 2, Total IMD Votes - 73

Thampu Movie Introduction: Movie Thampu, release year 1978 is written by Govindan Aravindan and directed by Govindan Aravindan. The leading star-cast in this movie are Bharat Gopy, Jalaja, V.K. Sriraman along with the other stars and crew members.

Trailers, Clips, Featurettes and Behind the Scenes

Movie overview and plot by Anagha Shashank

Movie in-short: Besides a long glittering river, some men raise a pole. A tent balloons up. Where there was wide sand and the sound of water lapping, there is now a truck, chairs, hoops, stools, ropes, goats, a lioness, a pair of fat girls, some ...

Movie story-line: Across a dirt road, the circus truck comes to a village. The tent goes up. Schoolboys run to the tent. Village women come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop across a tightrope. A lion leaps from the edge of one stool - across darkness - on to another stool. A gap-toothed old woman gazes at a goat on a tight rope; her eyes are wide with curiosity. For three days the circus makes small ripples in the life of this village. Municipal permits are required. At a toddy shop, a soldier befriends the circus strongman; a pump attendant sits on a rock each day watching a village girl bathe and dry her hair. The dwarf brings back to the circus a watermelon larger than his head. In the film's three days, we, the viewers, learn the geography of the village: the banyan treewith leaves like transparent film, the shining water, the light on the sand at sunset. When the circus leaves the village, it leaves us. The narrative says: The circus comes and leaves; life goes on.

Movie synopsis: Besides a long glittering river, some men raise a pole. A tent balloons up. Where there was wide sand and the sound of water lapping, there is now a truck, chairs, hoops, stools, ropes, goats, a lioness, a pair of fat girls, some bicycles, and an old man with a philosopher's dignity, putting on white paste. Across a dirt road, the circus truck comes to a village. The tent goes up. Schoolboys run to the tent. Village women come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop across a tightrope. A lion leaps from the edge of one stool - across darkness - onto another stool. A gap-toothed old woman gazes at a goat on a tight rope; her eyes are wide with curiosity. For three days the circus makes small ripples in the life of this village. Municipal permits are required. At a toddy shop, a soldier befriends the circus strongman; a pump attendant sits on a rock each day watching a village girl bathe and dry her hair. The dwarf brings back to the circus a watermelon larger than his head.

Highlights - Thampu (1978)

Total budget - $0.00
Total revenue - $0.00
Produced by - General Pictures
Produced in - India
Available languages - Malayalam (),
Homepage URL -
Awards won / Nominations - 1 win
Certificate(s) -

Lead Actors, Writer(s), Director(s) of Thampu (1978)

Lead Actors - Bharat Gopy, Jalaja, V.K. Sriraman
Writer(s) - Govindan Aravindan
Director(s) - Govindan Aravindan