Balyakalasakhi (Malayalam)

                  Balyakalasakhi 

Director:

• Pramod Payyannur

Writer:

• Vaikom Mohammed Basheer

Cast:

Mammootty, Isha Talwar, Meena, Seema Biswas, Parambrata Chatterjee

Releasing date:

• Feb 7, 2014

Ratings:

The film has an overall rating of 5.9 which points an average film

Recommendation:

Not recommeded film

Story:

        Balyakalasakhi is a pure love story revolving around Majeed (Mammootty) and Suhra (Isha Talwar) which begins from their childhood. The movie begins with Majeed searching a job in Kolkata. He loses his money and bag on the way, but is helped by Selvi (Seema Biswas) , who introduces him to Ameen Sahib (Sasikumar). Ameen Sahib gives Majeed a job in his press. Majeed meets Shabnam (Thanusree Ghosh) , daughter of Ameen Sahib and Praful (Preim Sheikh), a rebel and a writer. Rest of the story deals with the flashback of the love story between Majeed and Suhra and how and where life takes them.

         Balyakalasakhi is a Malayalam romantic tragedy novel written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and published in 1944. Many people think it as a best work of Basheer. The story revolves around Majeed and Suhra, who are in love with each other from childhood. This movie revolves around Majeed and his love Suhra who love from their childhood. This love is transferred to their adolescence. Majeed's father can send him to a school in the distant town because he is a rich man. Suhra's father on the other hand can not do so because he is a poor man but he wants to send his daughter, who is good at studies to the school. But after her father's death, all her hopes of further studies are ruined. Majeed requests to his father to sponsor Suhra's education, but he refuses. Majeed leaves home after the refusal of his father, and spends a long time out from the home. 

On his return, he finds that his family's former affluence has finished, and that his beloved Suhra has married someone else. After knowing all this, Majeed leaves home once again, but this time with plans on his mind. He needs to find a job, to ward off poverty. For this purpose he joins as a salesman but after a bicycle accident in which he loses a leg he finds work as a dish-washer in a hotel. Despite this, he dreams of Suhra to come back home waiting for him to return. He wants to make enough money to return home and get married to the woman of his life. His mother writes him that Suhra is sick and afterwards she writes about her death. 

Review:

      The story revolves around childhood sweethearts Majeed (Mammootty) and Suhra (Isha Talwar). Born to rich parents, Majeed falls in love with his not-so-affluent neighbour Suhra. After her father's death, when Suhra struggles to make both ends meet, Majeed pleads with his father to sponsor her education. Refused, he wanders off to distant lands. Some of the other characters created by Basheer such as Ettukali Mammoonju and Ottakannan Pokker also appear in the film.

The launch of the film edition of the novel Balyakalasakhi was done by Leela Menon who handed over the book to Fabi Basheer, wife of Vaikom Muhammed Basheer.