Thirakkatha : Some Questions
( Non Mallu readers please Excuse! )
I went for this movie last night. And the thoughts about the theme were still haunting me. To be frank it was an average movie with a diffrent plot. Renjith deserves an applause for making this film. But what really makes this different is , it is based on Malayalam Film Industry. It spans across 3 decades of Malayalam Film Industry. The characters seems to have similarities with real Actors. Ok, The story is like this, …. For those who dont want to read the story – Stop here! Anyway , I am not telling the complete story.
The basic story is about an actor’s career from a Villian to SuperStar. He was introduced to the Film as an Anti Hero who loves the Hero’s Girl friend. Hero , Heroine and Anti-hero are freshers! Striked something? Yea.. Manjil Virinja Pookal. He later married the heroine in real life and somehow they got split. The Anti Hero had the look and mannerisms of MohanLal . He later became superstar and the heroine was into mother roles. The climax is the re – entry of the heroine as a cancer patient after struggling with some low profile roles. Priyamani made the heroine role excellent. She did justice to the role.
So, what we all thought after seeing the movie was, why the central character was portrayed as Mohanlal? The heroine , supposedly a film version of SriVidya who was a victim of breast cancer had a story like this? As far as I know, Mohanlal was not linked to Srividya. But why the film made us think like that? Just because its a film? The makers ofcourse meant Srividya in Priyamani. Thats what this poster says,
But why MohanLal?? Any answers?
Photos from : Prithviz
September 16, 2008 - 11:07 am
Anything is possible in movies, I guess that’s why!
IT’s Renjith’s movie right? He might just have done that too add an element of fiction.
And, forgive me if I sound a tad too punctilious, bro, but it’s “heroine” not “heroin”. The meaning gets transformed without the “e”.
September 16, 2008 - 11:12 am
The hero is portrayed as both Mohanlal and Mammootty. During the climax, he is shown as Mammooty (The film poster says Rudiram).
And the story is loosely taken from Srividya’s lifestory. It is not a complete adaptation of her life.
September 16, 2008 - 6:46 pm
@ Hari Shanker : Its fiction ofcourse! But why he wanted Mohanlal to be a part of it , is my question! I have this in my side bar
” . So I am excused! Usually I wont check for typos! Anyway thanks for pointing it out! A e can make a huge change there 
” Subjected to Typos and Grammatical errors.. Please use your common sense!
@ Thoma : That poster is the only thing that can be related to Mammooty if I am right.
September 16, 2008 - 10:10 pm
hehe! Mohanlal is linked to a number of heroines!! Why not Sreevidya too?
But jokes apart, I think those guys just wanted people to enjoy the fun in correlating the characters and the familiar faces
No intention of linking their actual lives, i guess..
Wow! Mohanlal can sue them for damaging his public image!!!
October 6, 2008 - 4:30 pm
Hi sreejith
I haven’t seen the movie . But there were rumours about sreevidya and kamal hassan going strong way back . Few of my friends who has seen the movie were actualy linking Kamal hassan to the hero .:)
November 12, 2008 - 11:29 am
Mohanlal’s thing was just an add on. Main story is supposed to be Srividya’s and rumours has it that superstar was supposed to be Kamal Hassan. I dont have a clue about this, cause I never heard a story like that. The movie might have been dedicated to her for no reason :p
January 5, 2009 - 2:06 pm
In an interview Renjith admitted that the inspiration behind the film was Srividya’s death and Kamal’s visit in her last moments at hospital.