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{mosimage}Mazha - A disturbing musical journey of an young girl into the womanhood was scripted and directed by noted film maker Lenin Rajendran had Samyukta varma in the lead role. It was a mile stone in Samyukta's acting career also. It is a part of my VCD library and I had a chance to see it again after a long time after coming to UAE. I felt it deserves a wide audience and thus writing to you all, recommending to see it. I had seen it once again in Surya TV when I was in India and I hope you all will catch up when it comes in Surya TV again.

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It is a simple tale of a +2 student Subhadra, shortly known as Bhadra, a talented girl, born and brought up in Bangalore comes to her ancestoral village Shivapuram somewhere in Tamilnadu. She gets a chance to meet Ramanujam Iyer (Biju Menon) under whom she learns music. He too happens to be of same literary taste but bit cynical about life. There blossoms a beautiful relationship that treads the middle path between love and friendship. Bhadra's father unapproving this relationship moves her to another city. After years Bhadra becomes a doctor and gets married to Chandran (Lal). Theirs is a typical love & hate marriage life and one fine day Chandran also passes away. Bhadra visits Shivapuram with a hope atleast Ramanujam is happy.

{mosimage}The movie has a lyrical quality which eventually carries an undercurrent of slight pathos all over. Every character is happy doing their own thing but beneath underlies a feeling of letdown that things didn't happen actually the way they loved to be. Hey... this doesn't mean that the movie is dark and brooding but simply practical. Infact the movie is enlightening throughout. Every character moves ahead accepting the way things happen. Eg. When Bhadra's father transports to new place once he comes to know the relationship between Ramanujam and her, Bhadra accepts this and instead of choosing any self destructive mechanisms, she becomes a doctor.

Screenplay of the movie was neat and when I viewed for the first time, I was wondering how can they make any script without any sudden twists and turns. But when I accepted that the movie was just to portray the journey of the girl, I found it simply amazing. I think since we got used to all gimmicks in Tamil & Hindi movies we find it difficult watching malayalam movies. I remember the interview of Lenin Rajendran after getting best film award, saying "Many people called me at nights after seeing it in video to say that it distubed them a lot. Why can't they watch in theatres when it was released and patronise good movies rather than making it a cult classic but commercial flop?". I think this is the bane of good attempts on the celluloid screen.

There are many scenes in the movie that command your attention and savour for times. Especially the Shivapuram sequences and the unadultrated romantic sort of scenes that shows the sweet things brewing between Bhadra & Ramanujam. Besides these the scenes Bhadra tries to pick pieces and put up to save her marriage hitting the rocks were worth watching. Bhadra does it with style without losing her self respect. When her husband questions about her "Krishnan" she replies that she was in love with somebody at her tender age and she was happy that she was a virgin when she was married to Chandran, but was not for being so when her loyalty towards the marriage was doubted. A hard hitting answer that will drive any chauvanist to death.