Amrutham Gamaya , (translation: Path to immortality) is a 1987 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by Hariharan, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and produced by P. K. R. Pillai. It features Mohanlal in the lead role, along with Geetha, Parvathy Jayaram, Vineeth, Thilakan, Devan, Babu Namboothiri and Karamana Janardanan Nair in major supporting roles. The film has no songs, but features a musical score composed by M. B. Sreenivasan. This film is known for its poignant expression of guilt, it portrays with great sensitivity the story of a doctor who tries to atone for a mistake that he committed as a student – a mistake that destroyed a family. Amrutham Gamaya is regarded as one of the best films of Hariharan and one of the classic screenplay of Vasudevan Nair. Plot The movie opens with the final year medical students taking the Hippocratic oath in the Medical college auditorium. Amongst them is Sreedevi, who is honoured by the college as the best outgoing student of the year and is adorned with a gold medal. She takes it straight to Haridas, who is a senior doctor and her sponsor, who is sitting and watching the function in one corner. She tells him she is dedicating the award to him. They walk together and decide to visit to the village they belong to. They sit along the river bank and reminisce about their past. Flashback Dr P.K. Haridas and his widowed mother are on their way to his uncle's home. They drive past the Nila river, where they glimpse fleetingly at a stream of devotees in white offering Karkidaka Vavu Bali (a form of Hindu ritual in which offerings are made for the deceased to attain Moksha). His uncle, Kurup, leads the family, which has his four sons, a daughter and a daughter-in-law. Haridas is their poor cousin, the one whose education was funded by the uncle and therefore continually reminded by his meek mother to be indebted to them. Haridas is supposed to marry Kurup's daughter Bhanu who is smart and educated. The uncle and his sons think they own him making him uncomfortable, so does their feudalistic attitude towards the lesser privileged. When a Muslim trader lashes at the uncle for using devious methods to get his shop, Haridas is more appalled by how the daughter, Bhanu, springs up in defence of her father. The eldest son, Suku is