This is one movie that touches you real deep.You just love the man for his sincerity , for his trueness.Not just Lal , Parvathi and Sumalatha are all people you can identify with and also like.You like these people.The predicaments they are in , the interesting and realistic ways the story unfolds
Let me be honest.Inspite of having seen this movie fully atleast 15 times by now , I am short of words.I am unable to put my finger on why I like this movie so much.Of course , the mesmerising music is still as much a part of my life as the memories of the movie.I have the background score in my car stereo that I listen to whenever I am in the need for some soothing caress.It is almost like looking at your own old school album.That is the win of this movie.It is a part of me as it is to countless other Keralites.
There is a spirit of adventure and dare that would impress the youth.Everyone is adventurous.Making bold decisions on how to steer their own lives.May not be the most mature decisions , may not be the 'right' decisions but each of them follow their own heart and do what they want done.And you like them.You understand them.You feel their anguish.You feel the love they feel , you feel the pain they feel.
Udakappola , the novel the movie is inspired from is many dimensions above the movie and that might actually be one reason why I have sort of lost a little bit of the blind admiration that I had for this movie.It presents so so so much more.Padmarajan has definitely see a lot in life.His detailed presentation of life unfolds so clearly in front of your eyes that I can still visualise some of the stories that I had read a year or so back.I have to but note that I might have started on the dipping end of the bell curve.
