Veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Naalu Pennungal' narrates the story of four women from different economic strata; a sex worker, a peasant, a middle class homemaker and a woman from an affluent family. Nandita Das, Padmapriya, Manju Pillai and Geethu Mohandas play the key characters in the film. Kavya Madhavan, who plays Nandita’s sister has an important role in the film.

The feature film based on three novels by one of the greatest novelists in Malayalam, Jnanpith Award-winner Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, tells four different faces of women belonging to the Kuttanad background. The three novels adapted in the film are 'Nithya Kanyaka, Oru Theruvu veshyayude Kadha, Chinnu Amma. This is Adoor’s third film that is an adaptation of a literary work. 'Mathilukal' and 'Vidheyan' were based on Basheer’s and Paul Zacharia’s novels respectively.

The film is produced by Benzy Martin with support from Doordarshan, the national television network. The others in the cast include Mukesh, Manoj. K. Jayan, Baiju, Srijith Ravi, KPAC Lalitha, Babu Namboothiri etc. And this is the first feature film that does not have Adoor’s favourite cameraman Mankada Ravi Varma behind the camera. This time the cinematographer is M.J. Radhakrishnan. The script and the dialogues is by Adoor himself. The film was shot at Kuttanad Thiruvananthapuram, Amalappuzha and Thakazhi.

The movie will hit the screens in October.