Ramblings Only

Are all Malyalam movies this good? Or is it just Anjali Menon's movies only? I enjoyed how heavy topics were handled lightly. The movie begins with couple having baby after baby, a total of 5, since the first four were girls and the father wanted a boy. Now this is not a father that starts hating her girls because he wanted a boy, he does take good care of his girls. A normal man. The wife dies because she had so many babies at quick succession. No one finger points. What has happened has happened. 

I wanted to be part of this family of 5 kids, they have so much fun, a part of me Wouldnt have minded being a sister too, the burka included. 

Dulquer aka Faizie wants to be a chef but his dad wants him to study MBA and take care of his lucrative business. But Dulquer studies to become a chef by lying to his dad. Another touchy point which is lightly handled, rather Faizie handles it lightly, just leaves home to live with his grand father. 

Nithya and Dulquer hitch a ride in a lofty in the middle of the night, with Dulquer in a burka because no man wants to give a lift to a boy and a girl. Dulquer sits next to the driver and the driver starts touching his legs ( thinking he was a woman of course) while changing gears. Another touchy feely subject. When he tells that to Nithya and she says 'yes that's how easy it is for us women to get a lift'. All smiling and light heartedly. Another serious issue of groping handled lightly. 

Now Dulquer has a foreign degree to be a chef but his grand father who is also a cook, doesn't let him cook in his average hotel, saying he is not mature enough to enter the kitchen, and makes him clean tables and carry groceries. Dulquer who has had it easy so far though feels offended again takes it easy and does what his grand father asks him to do. 

Towards the end in a letter to his friend, the grandfather tells him ' I have taught him how to cook, teach him why he should cook' You can cook gourmet meals for the foreign  rich in a five star hotel but what is the use when there are many of our country men with no food? 

This movie made  me draw analogy to my own career and passion. I know how to do my job. Do I know why am I doing it? Am I making stuff, fancy gadgets to the rich to make their lives easier? ( Or lazier?) Or am I making stuff that reaches out to people who can really benefit from it, like kids in a school in a village may be? 

Sometimes I get frustrated with where I work. Usual stuff, not innovating, not doing something radical etc etc. But I am proud that we don't forget the rest of the world, outside of the developed nations, and make it our mission to reach out and give what the first world has to them.

Dulquer's thatha made an impact on me more than Dulquer. I needed this movie. I watched it at the right time. Sometimes we get carried away with troubles of our petty small world, we forget there are people who would kill to have our life. I wanted to go to India because India is my country, Indians are my people. 

My dad stills does so much volunteering and helping the needy, teaching English in schools for free, helping poor kids with study materials. In India if you help one child in a family study you are bringing the standard of the whole family. 

I will not say no to any charity ask. I will skip eating out or that dress and pledge. Now I really want to feed some needy souls. Will try to visit the soup kitchen I have been to with the women at work. I remember how grateful they were and how rewarding it felt. And I will take JSK with me. 

Edited to add: Music is awesome. Gopi Sundar, my new favorite. My kinda movie.