Vaikom Mohammed Basheer
A story of poverty and of the supernatural.
The Blue Light tells the story of a poor and struggling writer. When he rents a house, he is unaware that it was haunted by a ghost - specifically a female ghost. Bhargavi, who had lived in the house before, had committed suicide after a failure in love.
The writer, affected by the solitude, the gloomy location and influenced by the songs of Paul Robeson, Pankaj Mullick, Bing Crosby and M. S. Subbulakshmi, finds himself eerily drawn to Bhargavi kutty (kutty is a an endearing way of calling a young woman).
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