Swapnadanam is a 1976 black-and-white

Black-and-white

Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...

 Malayalam-language film that marks the directorial debut of K. G. George

K. G. George

Kulakkatil Geevarghese George is an Indian film director who work in Malayalam film. George is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of Kerala who modernized the Malayalam cinema in the seventies. He is the founder-chairman of MACTA, and continues to be an executive member...

. A marital psychodrama, it rejected all the usual song-dance numbers of popular cinema, yet succeeded in reaching the common mass. The film was a commercial success while maintaining its artistic quality. It won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Film

Kerala State Film Award for Best Film

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 and National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam

The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam winners:...

. The cast includes Rani Chandra

Rani Chandra

Rani Chandra was a Malayalam film actress and winner of the Miss Kerala Title. She died in a plane crash in 1976. She acted in several landmark films such as Nellu , Bhadrakali and Swapnadanam .-Career:Her first film, Anjusundarikal, was widely accepted by the audience...

, Dr. Mohandas, Soman

M. G. Soman

M. G. Soman was an actor in Malayalam film. He was considered to be one of the superstars in Malayalam cinema along with Sukumaran and Jayan during the 1970s. He was born in Tiruvalla, Travancore...

, Mallika and P. K. Venukuttan Nair

P. K. Venukuttan Nair

A leading theatre personality and actor in Malayalam.He is a revered figure in the theatre circles in Kerala and a film actor of yesteryears. Nair was the vice-president of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi and member of the Kendra Sangeetha Nataka Akademi...

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Plot

The story proceeds in a flashbacks as the hero, Dr. Gopi, who has had a nervous breakdown, relives his past under psychiatric probing. It is the story of an ill-matched marriage — the husband, sensitive, introvertive and plagued by memories of a bygone love and the wife, rich, spoilt and self-centred — and how under the mounting stresses of daily life, the husband cracks up. Gopi is the only son of a widowed mother, and in strained circumstances, is put through medical college by his rich uncle on the understanding that Gopi marries his daughter Sumithra. Gopi, while in college, falls in love with a fellow-student, but they part company when his mother meets the girl and persuades her to give up the betrothed Gopi. Gopi's marriage with his rich cousin takes place, but it is doomed from its very start. They are not made for each other in either taste or temparament, and besides Gopi is haunted by memories of his former love. And Gopi, being the introvert he is, consummates the marriage, as it were, in a psychiatric ward.

Cast

• Rani Chandra
  Rani Chandra
  Rani Chandra was a Malayalam film actress and winner of the Miss Kerala Title. She died in a plane crash in 1976. She acted in several landmark films such as Nellu , Bhadrakali and Swapnadanam .-Career:Her first film, Anjusundarikal, was widely accepted by the audience...
  
   as Sumithra
• Dr. Mohandas as Gopi
• Soman
  M. G. Soman
  M. G. Soman was an actor in Malayalam film. He was considered to be one of the superstars in Malayalam cinema along with Sukumaran and Jayan during the 1970s. He was born in Tiruvalla, Travancore...
  
  
• Mallika
• P. K. Venukuttan Nair
  P. K. Venukuttan Nair
  A leading theatre personality and actor in Malayalam.He is a revered figure in the theatre circles in Kerala and a film actor of yesteryears. Nair was the vice-president of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi and member of the Kendra Sangeetha Nataka Akademi...
  
  as Sumithra's father