Avalude Ravukal

Avalude Ravukal (Malayalam: അവളുടെ രാവുകള്‍) is a Malayalam film directed by I. V. Sasi, released in 1978. The film explores the life of a teenage prostitute and those of the people around her. The film was dubbed in Tamil as Avalin Iravugal.

Avalude Ravukal is considered as one of the boldest movies of all time. I. V. Sasi, the experimental and the most popular director at that time, tried to highlight on a theme which most mainstream directors are scared to get into.

The film was remade in Kannada as Kamala (1979).

Plot

The story pivots around Raji (Seema), a young sex worker, and three young men, two college students Babu (Ravikumar) who has a soft corner for her, Jayan (Sukumaran) and a school teacher Chandran (Soman).

Raji loses her parents early in life leaving the responsibility of bringing up her younger brother Sudhakaran (Master Raghu) on her shoulders. Circumstances force her to a life of a sex worker. She begins living with a slum dweller (Meenakumari) with a cycle-rickshaw driver Damu (Kuthiravattom Pappu) working as her ‘agent.’