Director P.Padmarajan is one of my Favourite Indian directors. He comes up with this beautiful film called Thoovaana thumbikal (Butterflies in spraying rain) (Thooralil Pattaampoochikal).
What is it about?
Its a story of Jayakrishnan(Mohanlal) who is struck between two love interests. I feel guilty to just describe in one line because you dont find any loop holes in this engaging screenplay. So below has the further glimpse.
Padmarajan being a genius in screenplay writing proves again with his full command in establishing the characters to audience gradually & in story telling.
Jayakrishnan who leads his life in a village with his household business. Every penny matters for him in business. Mostly an extrovert, hangs around with his close friend Rishi. As an elderly person he keeps telling things to Rishi at times as a guide.
Slowly we get a glimpse of other face of Jayakrishnan in town who is completely jovial, spends money lavishly, has a big circle of influential friends & also takes his friend to his new world & entertains him.
Now he happnes to see Radha(Parvathy) which happens to be a bitter first meeting .But this doesnot stop Jayakrishnan to express his love interest to Radha & radha rejects him.
Now Jayakrishnan feels bad & then spends time with a girl called Clara(Sumalatha) spending days of bliss in a venture of helping his friend Thangal. Then Clara disappears all of a sudden & at this point Radha develops a soft corner after learning about Jayakrishnan through her brother & friends. Jayakrishnan has to face this delicate situation between two lady loves as he being the main reason to express the interest which then becomes mutual. This way we are taken to further points in the movie.
Mohanlal & Asokan
I felt as if most of the scenes would be within these 2 as their partership works with magic. Its the time when Padmarajan gives time to audience to understand the characters which are being established. Probably If the entire movie is made just with these 2 characters as lead who knows the movie might still look good!! Very nice performances. Chammal scene in hotel room was finely done by asokan supported by Mohanlal.
Mohanlal & Sumalatha
My Favourite plot as all the sequences were taken aesthetically & at the same time realistically, as even a slight shift to overdoing or overexposing might placed this to different level with misleading intentions. Padmarajan describes the surrendering to each other mutually in a very matured style. At that time only bliss is filled in the screen and I dont get to notice any other production values and just keeping my eyes on their expressions and interactions of Mohanlal and Sumalatha. Connections between the rains & their encounters each other, Post intercourse conversation between them proves the poetic blend with realism. You get to see just 3 encounters between them and thas it. Too short!! But Had this plot been placed in more frames, then we wont have this to look forward to. Sumalatha is a spectacular choice. She is sexy just by her facial look without any delicate skin show, no one knows whats going through in her mind, yet matured, bold & has an attitude of free flowing & at the same time feels that Jayakrishnan deserves a better ladylove on the real grounds. Sumalatha just gels with the script and Mohanlal.
Mohanlal & Parvathy
Mohanlal makes his partnership with Parvathy as it all started with Radha. Typical Malayalee, although with her volupulous body looks cute and has given a nice screen presence.Padmarajan shows a his contrast in characterisation between radha(coming from a working class & economically self sufficient family, has her own childish ness, has her limits & has a high self esteem) and Clara (poor family background, but quite bold, decides and dares to do what she desires, has a compassionate heart). Below is one example to see the contrast
Scene when Radha says "pogatte...aval iniyum varuilla" Chettandhanne nokkikko expressing her possessiveness & a little bit of childishness to stop Jayakrishnan from Clara
Scene when Clara says "Ee Praavasham nammal adhiga neram samsaarichadhu Radhaye kurichaanu"
shows the maturity & genuine affection towards jayakrishnan as a well wisher.
Mohanlal has attempted Trisur accent & carefully uses occassionally in his high points & cozy scenes & not through out the movie which is realistic & worked well. All the performances worked for me...... He is just natural as usual.
Songs, Music,Direction of Photography
National award winner Johnson gives a good score. Especially the BGM related to Jayakrishnan-Clara meeting scenes. I simply love those. Those moments are memorable and the tune echos that same. Onnaam raagam paadi is my favourite with nice montage scenes. Megham poothu song is also good & grows in u once u see the video. Just 2 songs placed which seems very sensible & good songs composed by Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath. I liked the DOP & especially the angles. Performances hidden my eyes from noting the technicalities. So Let me write more when I watch this movie once again!!
Feel Good, Memorable movie with bold & clear cut script with well expressed scenes & characterisation. Padmarajan's script and direction dominates everything else. No wonder this is a classic and can be placed for case study for screenplay writing workshops in film insitutes!!! This would enlighten the aspiring movie makers to come up with more well written scripts amidst the recent one liner scripts for Commercial movies!!
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