Amaran (1991)

Shot on location, the film tells of relationships in a fishing village. Achuthan (Mammootty) had watched his wife die in childbirth for want of medical aid and is determined to make his daughter (Madhu) into a doctor. She loves her childhood friend (Ashokan), but he disapproves of her education as well as of her possessive father. Although much of the film faithfully adheres to the dialect of the fisherfolk, the realism lies mainly in Ambat’s fine camerawork.