Navarasa watch order
There are 9 Navarasa films, about 12 hours in total. The first was released in 2000, the latest in 2021. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
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Pathos (2000)
22 Sep 2000 · 78 min
Karunam movie revolves around Chackochan and Chechamma who are an elderly couple living on a plantation in southern India awaiting a visit from their son and his family, who now live in the USA.
- 2
Shantham (2001)
27 Feb 2001 · 95 min
Velayudhan is a young man living in a place torn apart by civil strife. In the midst of a raging street war, he kills his best friend. Velayudhan feels guilty and disturbed. The political enemies also plot revenge on Velayudhan.
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Adbutham (2006)
31 Dec 2006 · 75 min
Inspired by the first case of euthanasia in Oregon, Adbutham revolves around Chandrashekara Warrier, a Malayali man living in the US, who, after a debilitating accident, approaches the court for physician-assisted suicide and is granted approval for the same. Adbutham follows the final hours of Warrier.
- 5
Veeram (2017)
24 Feb 2017 · 100 min
Veeram is based on the ballads of North Malabar and narrates the tale of the brave and ambitious Kalarippayattu warrior, Chandu, whose story resembles that of William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Bhayanakam (2018)
20 Jul 2018 · 121 min
A First World War veteran reaches a backwater village in Kuttanand, India as a Postman. He delivers money orders and letters to the family of soldiers, becoming a symbol of happiness. But everything turns upside down, as the Second World War begins.
- 7
Roudram 2018 (2019)
18 Oct 2019 · 79 min
Based on real-life incidents that occurred in central Travancore during the devastating floods that Kerala survived in 2018.
- 8
Humour (2021)
17 Feb 2021 · 75 min
Hasyam (Humour) is the eighth film in writer-director Jayaraj’s Navarasa series that has so far yielded Shantham, Karunam, Bhibatsa, Adbutham, Veeram, Bhayanakam and Roudram, with one more to come. Rasa means juice, flavour or essence, and – to put it in the simplest terms possible –Navarasa in the Indian arts refers to the nine (nava) emotional states as captured by a work of art, and as manifest
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Backpackers (2021)
14 Mar 2021 · 96 min
Based on a true story, Backpackers follows the lives of a couple with terminal cancer as they spend the last few months of their lives fulfilling their adventurous dreams.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.