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Purushartham

1986 film by K. R. Mohanan

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ18345969 ↗
Source-derived summary

Purushartham is a 1987 Indian Malayalam film, directed by K. R. Mohanan and produced by P. T. Kunjumuhammed. The film stars Adoor Bhasi, Sujata Mehta, Jain George and Madambu Kunjukuttan in the lead roles.

This film won Kerala State Film Award for Best Film and National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam in 1987.

Editorial summary

“Purushartham” enters the record as 1986 film by K. R. Mohanan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Purushartham, film and Mohanan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Purushartham, film and Mohanan.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Purushartham” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Purushartham, film and Mohanan provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18345969. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Purushartham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.