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Velipadukal - Biography of a Sacred Cow is a Malayalam movie about a religious dystopia. It takes place in the future, at a time when the entire world believes in Scientific Religion. The religion grants eternity to its followers – dead persons are cooked well and eaten by others, letting their molecules start their journey to the subsequent generations. One is a rightist or a leftist, depending on the molecules of which side of the body he considers more sacred. All women are illiterate and live in special rooms in which they spend their lifetimes reproducing (or, in their terminology, doing “non-oral molecule transfer”) and listening to “The Book” and other dogmas read out to them. Then, one day, someone gets a hunch that there is a problem somewhere. But, being the world’s sole non-believer is not fun…
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