Njan Gandharvan

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Njan Gandharvan (transl. I am Gandharva) is a 1991 Indian Malayalam-language romantic fantasy film written and directed by P. Padmarajan. It stars Nitish Bharadwaj and Suparna Anand in lead roles. The film is an esoteric fantasy about a girl and her passion for a gandharva, who keeps appearing from a wooden statue that she found on a beach but is invisible to others. During the time of its release, it was a box office failure, with purists taking offense to the aesthetically shot intimate scenes. Later, the film has developed a cult following for various reasons, ranging from its aesthetics to its storytelling. The challenges faced during the production of the movie and director Padmarajan's untimely death just after the release contributed heavily to the 'gandharva curse', a superstition that films made about gandharvas brings bad luck to the ones involved.

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