The Unmarried Widow

What happens (happened!) when a Hindu Girl and a Muslim Boy who are family friends fall in love in the 1960-1970s Kerala?

Parents oppose, wards listen but stick to their guns without yielding an inch in their wish to live and die together even though their influential families separate them,  punish them with so many antics including merciless-beating (girl) and stabbing (boy, by his own dad) just to keep them away from each other.

This goes on for...hold your breath...TWENTY TWO YEARS!

Their siblings get married, friends get married, the whole world around them gets married meanwhile. These two stay single all through, refusing all attempts to get hitched with somebody else and they meet occasionally to renew their faith in each other. They develop their own communication channel, even their own language to share their love...

Families eventually soften a bit but they still oppose the union of these two poor souls.

This guy then devises a plan, secures a job in USA, arranges for  passport for his love too. He is on his way to meet her and elope with her one final time for good. But fate has its own plans for them...

Go watch Ennu Ninte Moideen (Truely yours, Moideen) to fall in love with Kanchanamala and Moideen (you will forget the actors just minutes into the movie as they 'become' the characters), the guy who saves the sand from her footprint in the beach and the girl who lives in his house as his unmarried widow...heart wrenching and uplifting at the same time...A truly poignant, moving performance by the lead actors.

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Watch this movie tomorrow if you can, and celebrate your own Valentines day in March!

I have been watching the evolution of Prithviraj as an Actor. I have a feeling that he will become a truly Pan-Indian 'force to reckon with' within a decade if he spends some time outside Mollywood and works with good scripts.

PS: I watched a documentary made by the Director of this Movie. He interviewed the real Kanchanamala for the documentary before making her life story into a full length movie. 

The documentary is aptly titled as 'Jalam Kond Murivetaval' which translates into 'the one who is wounded by Water'. I shed my share, though salted a bit, for them...