Bina Paul

Editor

Delhi, India

Biography

Bina Paul, also known by her married name Bina Paul Venugopal, is an Indian film editor who works mainly in Malayalam-language films.

Filmography

7.2

Sometimes

Seven people from different walks of life give their blood sample for ELISA Test - AIDS Screening. To avoid the tension of waiting, they decide to bribe the technician and know the results earlier. They come to know only one among them has AIDS. Each one hoping it is not him,waits with anxiety. The film takes an unexpected turn from here creating an emotional and shocking end.

6.4

Daivanamathil

As Anwar witnesses Babri Masjid demolition, he takes up the extremist path and turns into a jihadi. Due to this, his family suffers a lot of problems and struggles while attempting to reform Anwar.

6.7

Carbon

Siby is unmindful of his duties towards his family, but is in the pursuit of making some easy money via various fraudulent means. To escape one of the troubles he courted, he goes on an assignment to an old palace in a forest-ridden Cheenkannippara, which has a never-before effect on him.

7.7

Report to Mother

Purushan, a student on his way to Delhi, becomes obsessed with the tragic suicide of a young drummer. He collects many people to go with him to tell the boy’s mother.

4.0

Headmaster

A powerful story about underpaid teachers in 1950s Kerala leads Education Minister Joseph Mundassery to advocate for reform, sparking changes in teacher welfare despite initial legislative setbacks.

5.6

Aanum Pennum

An anthology film that takes you to different eras in the history of Kerala through three stories about relationships and emotions.

4.0

The Desire: A Journey of a Woman

Gautami is an Indian Odissi Dancer whose passion in life is dance. Jai Leang is a rising Chinese painter whose paintings are highly influenced by Chinese culture. Jai is drawn to Gautami because of her grace and charm. She pays no attention to him; she doesn't believe in marriage after her father dumped her mother for another woman. Gautami travel worldwide for her shows; it's a deliberate move on her part, and she and Jai lose contact. Gary organises an exhibition of Jai's paintings in India where his search for Gautami begins. He locates her in a monastery. He pleads to make a portrait of her. That night turns out to be fateful.

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Patham Nilayile Theevandi

Sankara Narayanan always hears incessant voices in his head and he gets admitted in a mental asylum. A doctor tries to reunite him with his family by curing his mental illness.

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Punyam Aham

A Brahmin falls in love with a woman of a lower caste during India's freedom struggle. They marry and have a son, but soon the man abandons his family. When the son grows up, he sets out to find his father.

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Sea of Love

Ratheesh develops strong romantic feelings for his neighbour, Jumaila, but she ends up rejecting him. Things take a turn when Jumaila's sexuality is uncovered.

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Kamli

Kamli was actually inspired by a K.N.T. Sastry's award winning documentary harvesting babies. K.N.T. Sastry wanted to make a feature film based on the documentary about the plight of tribal women selling their babies for a pittance. He actually contacted and wanted to make film with Soundarya as the main female lead of Kamli, but she died in a helicopter crash, and finally made the film with Nandita Das.

10.0

Mazha

Bhadra is married off to an engineer by her parents after they find out that she is infatuated with her music teacher. Her life goes through a tough phase when her husband becomes aware of her past.

10.0

Chaurahen

It is an evocative and poignant composition consisting of three separate stories set in Mumbai, Kolkata and Kochi. Every story revolves around love, life and loss.

7.0

Maargam

A revolutionist in his later years realizes that all his crusades have been trashed and sights the pathetic life of his comrades. His life and demise is portrayed through his daughter's vision.

6.3

Daya

The film is set in the Middle-East in the pre-Islam period. It is about the adventures and exploits of a lively and intelligent slave girl named Daya (Manju Warrier). Mansoor (Krishna), the son of an aging and wealthy nobleman, is used to an extravagant way of life.

6.0

Angene Oru Avadhikkalathu

Balakrishnan is a history teacher working in an elementary school in a hillside village. Nirmala has been newly recruited in the temporary post of a music teacher in the same school. Balakrishnan eventually falls in love with her but his timid nature doesn't allow him to express his feeling. So in order to get close to her, he decides to accompany her to her native village. Some unexpected incidents happen during the journey and this changes both of their destiny.

6.5

Triyatri

Bright students Ravi, Adi and Surya are angry when they find out that their high school marks are just below the cutoff mark to get an entrance to the college of their choice. Out of frustration, Ravi twangs his guitar during his grandfather's classical music lesson. The old man, instead of getting angry at this behavior, challenges the boys first to a musical contest and then to a cycle tour to Kanyakumari. These challenges test the young kid's minds, characters and endurance.

7.4

Munnariyippu

Raghavan, a simple and lonely man, comes out of jail. His life changes after he meets Anjali, a journalist who wants to prove herself professionally.

7.6

Kaiyoppu

After reading the works written by Balachandran, a publisher encourages him to publish a book. However, he struggles a lot as he faces a writer's block.

9.0

In Othello

Within the Delhi based English theater group, a crisis in the personal and professional relationships of the actors is doomed to make a mockery of their attempts to stage Othello. Shakespeare's central motifs of jealousy in love, and prejudice due to cultural differences, closely resemble what is happening among the cast and the play starts to amplify and precipitate their problems towards a tragic conclusion. Yet is it in fact the spirit of the play that is doing this? SYNOPSIS A multicultural theater company in today’s New Delhi is staging a production of Shakespeare’s Othello. The director takes a bold step by casting an inexperienced small town actor as Othello. The new actor falls in love with the leading lady, who is also the director’s love-interest, and the two men become bitter rivals. Things become even more complicated as the actors’ theatrical personae start to seep into their lives outside the theater.