Sadayam

Sadayam (English: With Compassion) (Malayalam: സദയം) is a 1992 Malayalam drama thriller film written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and directed by Sibi Malayil. It stars Mohanlal, Thilakan, Nedumudi Venu, Murali, Sreenivasan, Maathu, KPAC Lalitha, and T. G. Ravi. The film was produced and distributed by G. P. Vijayakumar under the banner of Seven Arts Films. The background score was composed by Johnson.

The story follows convict Sathyanathan (Mohanlal) who is awaiting capital punishment for the murder of two young girls and two men. Mohanlal is considered to have given one of his finest performances. M. T. Vasudevan Nair won the 1992 National Award for Best Screenplay.

Plot

The story is about convict Sathyanathan (Mohanlal) sentenced to death following multiple murders (of two adult men and two girl-children) he has committed and his subsequent prison life till death. The film focuses on his past and the chain of events leading to the crime and how a retelling of the tale, inadvertently, impacts the prison doctor Dr. Nambiar (Thilakan), who is the father of the male victim Vijayan (Mahesh).