- A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather and a female cyber-creature -- a series of pre-destined rendezvous, both on line and offline, over the shreds of mnemonic time and space, at the cleavages of various parlors of subculture -- finally the narrative images of the computer screen are drained off from the color and the texture, the images collapse down to a mere pulsating pixel, potentially to start another cycle of the story once again.—Anonymous
- An extremely rooted epic narrative, The Image Threads, where characters magically appear and disappear sketching the world of three protagonists - Hari, a system analyst and a Net hacker in his own terms known under the nick name of Net Potato, his Guru (teacher) Black magician grandfather, the evil incarnate, Kunjukuttan Nair, and the third vortex created by Ramani, (enchantress) the invisible lady with a scar, a vagabond, a liar, streetwalker and a performer seated mostly on a wheel chair with a web portal of her own, who seeks people to come and watch her performance. All pieces of information on black Magic and the essence of Information technology world in this film is thence- MOTHER!
Staying back in the work place at night, withdrawn and aloof Hari the central character gradually gets into habitual peregrinations of self-abandonment through the boundless vistas of cyber space. In homage to his grandfather, Hari conjures up or draws up a global force field of his tutelary deity, Vaarthali an emanation of Kali in her harmful aspects and calls it the World Wide Zone of Vaarthali. But unlike the Vaarthali worshipped by his grandfather, her morphed image that Hari generated on the computer had the head of a boar and the body of a woman.
Once while playing around with the game of cosmic origin on the computer there emerges a dame called Ramani. The acquaintance between Hari and Ramani warms up. The grandfathers notion on motion and that of plasma physics meet accidentally. Hari who has been disturbed over the thought that the image of Ramani keeps changing every time she appears, demands that they meet in person, once. The doubt flits across his mind that the dame called Ramani who makes her appearance on his computer monitor could as well be an absurd accidence programmed by somebody somewhere. Engrossed in thoughts about Ramani, Hari dreams her that nightwheeling around on her chair and dancing. Both Ramanis background and her location in the cyber space remain as obscure to Hari as ever. Hari becomes apprehensive that Ramani leads a wanton and licentious life with other men even as she consistently evades meeting or talking to him. Hari leaves for home to his village after having arrived at the conclusion that Ramani is the Cleopatra of virtual criminal instinct enthroned on a wheel chair.
Once when Kunjukuttan Nair was walking in the night through the forest, he sees one such seated on a swing and singing and musing to herself, in a mood of dalliance and flirtation. As he moves forward to catch hold of her, she flits away and jumps into a pond. Thus she goes on playing hide and seek for six days and nights on end, in six ponds one after the other, as fish and as mud before Kunjukuttan Nair could finally lay his hands on her. He takes her captive in magical spell and leaves her in subjugation to Vaarthali the goddess. Suddenly he has a vision that Vaarthali with drawn sword, is asking for blood sacrifice to propitiate her. Recognizing the premonitions of impending death, it dawns on him that it is himself who has to be offered as sacrifice. Meditating Vaarthali, the goddess, intently, he plunges the sword in his navel. He draws out the sword and slashes his penis that was in erection out of mortal fear and offers it as sacrifice before Vaarthali.
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