Rajeev Ravi’s Uthamukha with Nivin Pauly in the lead is finally hitting the screens on March 10. Magic Frames, owned by Listin Stephen, is bringing the film to the theaters after overcoming many hurdles. Nivin is playing the lead role of Mattancheri Moitu in the film. Nivin Pauly appears in various get-ups in the film, and the Kochi port of the twenties and forties has been recreated beautifully. The main theme of the film is the Chapa system of division of labor which existed in Kochi till 1962 and the struggle of the workers to end it.
The story begins in the 1920s when the new Kochi port was being built. Many job seekers from different parts of the country gather in front of the offices of labor contractors. A time when laborers fought each other for the metal tokens thrown by contractors and builders, for jobs to get an earlier day.
