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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vaishali is a
Malayalam film by Bharathan. Scripted by M. T. Vasudevan Nair, it was an
adaptation of a sub-story told in the epic Mahabharatha. In the epic
story, Vaisali was an insignificant character, daughter of royal
mistress, mastered in Vatsyayana Shastra. She was to attract
Rishyashrunga, the son of great sage Vibhadanka, and bring him to the
land of Lomapada to end the drought. Quite characteristic to his style,
when MT gave prominence to Vaisali, it was to achieve a new dimension.
Bharathan, being an accomplished painter, knew how to blend the
sensuousness of Vaisali's body with the wilderness of the forest. The
songs in this film were written by O. N. V. Kurup.
