Yathra (YouTube): When Unnikrishnan (Mammootty) is serving jail time for a crime he hasn’t committed, Thulasi (Shobana) keeps visiting him regularly, till an incident prompts him to forbid her from visiting him. Written by Syam Pushkaran and Dileesh Nair, it remains Aashiq Abu’s best film and one of the greatest romances of all times. The romance is so volatile, passionate and poignant that their tragic love remains a searing pain in your heart. Though their lives drift in unexpected directions, Mathan (Tovino Thomas) and Appu (Aishwarya Lekshmy) remain loyal to each other, and during every reunion they fight, humiliate, motivate and make wild love to each other. But then, each time, despite the long intervals, he crawls back into her life, with apologies. As they grow older, the romance often falls off the track, and it’s always Mathan who keeps letting her down. In school they would snuggle inside internet café booths, take long bikes rides and hungrily exchange stolen kisses. Mayaanadhi (Sun NXT): Mathan and Appu’s romance goes back a long way. Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal stays relevant and will always be placed several notches higher than one of his most discussed romantic films of all times- Thoovanathumpikal. Inarguably one of the greatest celluloid love stories of all times, this is also a pioneering work from Padmarajan that absolved all the time-tested puritanical concepts attached to romance. And understandably the romance between the demure Sophia and the achingly romantic Solomon (his proposal continues to have no parallels in the romantic annals of Malayalam cinema) takes its own sweet time to grow, with the man spinning a charming web of compassion and love around her. But Sophia’s return glance is more out of idle curiosity.
As he drives out of the compound, you know the man has fallen in love. Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal (Hotstar): Solomon (Mohanlal) reverses the jeep, with his mom by the side, spots Sophia (Shari) watering plants, gazes at her, with a faint smile. But then again, romantic movies are very subjective, it eventually lies in the sense of the beholder. So, this Valentine’s Day weekend, here are seven unusually intense love stories that have stood the test of time in Malayalam cinema. At other times, there have been incredible moments of romance encrusted in unlikely films like Bhoothakannadi (what an unusually deep love story between Sarojini and Vidhyadharan, and it remains unwavering even after the man is sent to an asylum), the multiple romances in Venu Nagavally’s Swagatham and Kalipattam, an affair that spills over with lust but ends movingly in Mathilukal, a man torn between guilt and love in Thoovanathumbikal and the coming-of-age narrative of a lad who experiences love at various stages of his life in Premam.
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