A 2008 Malayalam movie starring Prithviraj, Anoop, Priya Mani and Samvritha Sunil in the leading roles. And you can also see poor Nishanth Sagar playing the role of a post throughout the film.
Prithviraj plays the role of an young film director who owns and maintains a cafeteria. Anoop and Priya Mani are also related with the film industry. Anoop plays the role of a superstar, whereas Priya was a leading heroine in the Malayalam film industry who is now nowhere near the limelight.
The story is about Akki(Prithviraj) trying to direct a film based on the love life of Ajay(Anoop) and Malavika(Priya). He gets all the information regarding that relationship from a late director's(Renjith) letters to his wife and his dairy notes. The relationship is like this. Ajay who is the son of a makeup man is working on his first film (Itha oru Manjukalam) in the anti-hero role. The hero is an actor named Sekhar and the heroine is Malavika/Malu. By the end of that film, both of them started a relationship. Things become worse when Malu's mother caught both of them kissing on a park bench in the shooting location on her birthday. After that, her mom never allows her to play the heroine role against Ajay. But later they got married in a register office. After some time (may be months, ie not mentioned), Malu becomes pregnant. But Ajay wants to abort that because he was on the edge of taking his career to higher ends. Eventhough malu was against this idea in the beginning, she later agrees to abort the child for the sake of saving Ajay's career. But later she came to know that during abortion, another surgery was made which made her incapable to become pregnant in the future. This lead them to a split and she become an alcoholist.
After their split, they acted together in another movie after a number of years. At that time, Ajay tries to explain Malu what really happened. But she was not ready to hear. Soon, Malu disappeared from the movie screens and people forgot about her.
Akki decides to make this as a film and Ajay didnt want Akki to do that story. He tried to play the lead charector, so that he can bring in some changes in the script later, but Akki discards his offer. Later Akki happened to find out Malu. But by that time, she had got Cancer and she looked terrible now after undergoing chaemotherapy. Akki brings her back home and she is on her death bed. At that time, she came to know from the doctor that they had earlier removed an cancer infected organ from her body during the abortion and it was as a result of that surgery that her ability to deliver children was gone. She actually misunderstood that Ajay did it for selfish reasons and now she understood everything. She insists Akki to call Ajay and when he came, she wanted him to take her to the location of their first film location where they first met and their love life started. The film ends with Malu lying in the hands of Ajay telling him that she is afraid to die, on the park bench of Cloud's End, the villa where their first film was shooted.
The film is a good one and the director has picturised the love life between Ajay and Malu in a very beautiful manner. In between, you will be able to see some resemblence with the real life of filmstars like Mohanlal, Mammooty, Kamal Hasan and Sreevidya. And there is enough description about how this superheoism has affected the malayalam film industry. The only part in the film that is not impressive are the songs. They've got really slow songs which can make u feel that time is not moving at all. The climax scene is really touching and take my word, your eyes are gonna be wet in the end if your heart is not so hard. :-)
My Rating : Good (***)
Prithviraj plays the role of an young film director who owns and maintains a cafeteria. Anoop and Priya Mani are also related with the film industry. Anoop plays the role of a superstar, whereas Priya was a leading heroine in the Malayalam film industry who is now nowhere near the limelight.
The story is about Akki(Prithviraj) trying to direct a film based on the love life of Ajay(Anoop) and Malavika(Priya). He gets all the information regarding that relationship from a late director's(Renjith) letters to his wife and his dairy notes. The relationship is like this. Ajay who is the son of a makeup man is working on his first film (Itha oru Manjukalam) in the anti-hero role. The hero is an actor named Sekhar and the heroine is Malavika/Malu. By the end of that film, both of them started a relationship. Things become worse when Malu's mother caught both of them kissing on a park bench in the shooting location on her birthday. After that, her mom never allows her to play the heroine role against Ajay. But later they got married in a register office. After some time (may be months, ie not mentioned), Malu becomes pregnant. But Ajay wants to abort that because he was on the edge of taking his career to higher ends. Eventhough malu was against this idea in the beginning, she later agrees to abort the child for the sake of saving Ajay's career. But later she came to know that during abortion, another surgery was made which made her incapable to become pregnant in the future. This lead them to a split and she become an alcoholist.
After their split, they acted together in another movie after a number of years. At that time, Ajay tries to explain Malu what really happened. But she was not ready to hear. Soon, Malu disappeared from the movie screens and people forgot about her.
Akki decides to make this as a film and Ajay didnt want Akki to do that story. He tried to play the lead charector, so that he can bring in some changes in the script later, but Akki discards his offer. Later Akki happened to find out Malu. But by that time, she had got Cancer and she looked terrible now after undergoing chaemotherapy. Akki brings her back home and she is on her death bed. At that time, she came to know from the doctor that they had earlier removed an cancer infected organ from her body during the abortion and it was as a result of that surgery that her ability to deliver children was gone. She actually misunderstood that Ajay did it for selfish reasons and now she understood everything. She insists Akki to call Ajay and when he came, she wanted him to take her to the location of their first film location where they first met and their love life started. The film ends with Malu lying in the hands of Ajay telling him that she is afraid to die, on the park bench of Cloud's End, the villa where their first film was shooted.
The film is a good one and the director has picturised the love life between Ajay and Malu in a very beautiful manner. In between, you will be able to see some resemblence with the real life of filmstars like Mohanlal, Mammooty, Kamal Hasan and Sreevidya. And there is enough description about how this superheoism has affected the malayalam film industry. The only part in the film that is not impressive are the songs. They've got really slow songs which can make u feel that time is not moving at all. The climax scene is really touching and take my word, your eyes are gonna be wet in the end if your heart is not so hard. :-)
My Rating : Good (***)
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