Amrutham Gamaya, (translation: Path to immortality) is a 1987 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by Hariharan, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and produced by P. K. R. Pillai.

She takes it straight to Haridas, who is a senior doctor and her sponsor, who is sitting and watching the function in one corner.

Haridas is their poor cousin, the one whose education was funded by the uncle and therefore continually reminded by his meek mother to be indebted to them.

When a Muslim trader lashes at the uncle for using devious methods to get his shop, Haridas is more appalled by how the daughter, Bhanu, springs up in defence of her father.

The eldest son, Suku is a real estate contractor, the second one moves around in political circles and the youngest, Raghu runs a medical shop.

When Haridas starts his practice at the local dilapidated clinic run by his uncle, he realises that he is up against a morally corrupt system, where the facilities are poor, and also that he does not have a say in its functioning.

They are against his honest practice and were disappointed when he denied prescribing unnecessary medicines to the poor because it did not help his brother's pharmacy business.

That night he injects pethidine to ease his pain and the guilt slowly starts to eat inside him.

But Haridas calms her down and tells her that it is his responsibility to take care of that family, as there is something in his past which she wouldn't understand.

Meanwhile, his addiction grows and finally when his mentor, the wise old professor arrives and advises him, it is only then he stops injecting it.

He tells him that all pregnancy cases are undertaken by Dr Rajan Thomas and interfering in his domain would cause problems.

Not able to carry Haridas's weight on his shoulders and due to the stress of ragging, Unni collapses and spits out blood.

Haridas looks on as the family finishes the last rites but totally crumbles when the mother accuses him of killing her son.

As he slits his wrist, writhing in pain and remorse, Sreedevi grabs his hands, her face swimming in tears and everything else she was holding back from him.

[5] Actress Soumini, who played a small role as a nurse in this film, committed suicide during the shooting.

The movie explores the themes of guilt, depression, drug abuse, corruption, addiction, traditional Kerala family scepticisms and values and finally redemption.

The journey of Haridas, from his guilt-ridden days to acceptance and inner peace is the titular metaphorical path to immortality.

Mohanlal portrays Haridas at three stages in his life i.e. as the bullying and ragging senior, the guilt-ridden doctor and finally as the man who attains redemption.

Neelima Menon of The News Minute writes, "Amrutham Gamaya is about second chances, about battling guilt, because when you allow it to consume you it has the capacity to cripple you for life.

When a seemingly harmless ragging session leads to the death of his junior, Dr Haridas is devastated but his professor bails him out.

Years later as a practitioner at a village clinic, the past gets back to him in the form of his poor neighbours who are the family of the deceased student.

In November 2020, Neelima Menon of The News Minute wrote, "Amrutham Gamaya stars a brilliant Mohanlal in MT Vasudevan Nair’s story about remorse.