Yaaaaay! One of my favorite movies! So even if people can’t show up, because of stupid jobs and school and things, I will have fun watching it by myself.
Ohm Shanthi Oshaana! Available on youtube, googleplay, and einthusan. Well worth the money to rent, or even buy.
At 3pm Chicago time I will start off the comments, and then we will keep going back and forth for the whole movie, right here.
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And PLAY!
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This is not the only Malayalam film I have seen with “Thanks to God” at the opening. I kind of like it
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Oh, I forgot about this cigarette warning opening! So great! I love it when directors get cheeky about censorship
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This is the greatest cigarette warning ever. So utterly perfect!!!
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Ahhh, right away from the opening title, we know this will be a happy film
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I like how he pushed the cigarette warning to the side.
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Bellbottoms! Period touch!
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This opening song is already such a bright happy thing!
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I’m here!
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Yaaaaay! This is the happiest movie ever
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Boo ya! Feminism! Praise the Lord whether it is a boy or a girl, equal good no matter what obnoxious hospital people say
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VERY cute baby.
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Why are chipmunks singing?
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Malayalam films seriously nail the opening credits like no one else. Never seen a bad one yet
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So great having a full on hero cut of the lead character, including birth. It’s not just a “Female oriented” film, it’s straight up “the hero is a girl and gets all the backstory and motivation and everything else like usual”
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A country with a giant population, and yet in films there are only only children.
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That’s not true, there are plenty of brother dramas. I apologize.
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I adore our heroine taking over her own narration almost as much as I adore the movie hero posters on her wall. Why have a poster of a heroine? They never have anything to do! Heroes are better.
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Of course there were picture of her in heroine poses too. I particularly liked the bow and arrow.
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These are such boring parantal hobbies and I love how happy they are with them.
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Her parents are just THE BEST
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I think this girl is a wee bit spoiled
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Yes, and yet I don’t resent her for it.
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I love Niram! That’s all
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She is impossible to hate
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Saw that fall coming!
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Do not make me be the parent of a teenage girl
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It’s a theme! Good things take time to mature! Like wine!
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They have the best house.
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It is awfully nice.
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Well, the outside part!
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Wine Aunty is a big deal actress who played loads of charming young women herself back in her youth
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It’s true, most teenage boys are gross
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Seconded, they are either idiots or massive show-offs
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YES! HERO!
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And looking so very very hot!!
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So cute when they’re little, and then …
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I would like to hang with Wine Aunty!
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This dude, I would feel bad for him, but I feel like rejection is probably gonna be a good new experience for him.
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OUCH!
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Teenage boys do not stand a chance with cool older guys around.
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NOKIA!!!!
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The period touches are so good in this!
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The love India had/still has for Nokia phones makes me so happy!! Gone everywhere else in cinema, but they keep popping up here
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The rooster/chicken clucking mixed with electronic in the background is the height of comedy sound effects
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Telling a teenage girl that the guy she likes is a former thug does not make him LESS appealing
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The first time I watched this, I thought the Kung Fu was ridiculous, and then I learned that Kerala has an ancient partial art tradition. Huh!
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I love her parents, and they are also very smart to just stand back and watch instead of asking questions when their teen daughter does something new and different.
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A cute shot of her parents watching her cook.
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This is my favourite song from the film, so cute!
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The amount of Female Gaze this movie provided is giving me life
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This is such a great female fantasy song, for once putting the female desire behind the camera.
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I like the idea of idolizing the man for his beauty, but I don’t find the actor that beautiful.
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Blasphemer!
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How old is she supposed to be?
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19
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Really,\? I would have thought she was younger.
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Yeah, they give us that she is in her final year before college/med school, and based on the song references and her birth year, she is 18-19.
I think her character is just a slightly spoiled slightly sheltered person so she comes off as younger.
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pig tails. I see pig tails and think 12.
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Yeah, the guys all seem middle aged and the girls all seem 12!
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This conversation I think also established that he is younger than he seems. His father died, he had to take care of his Mom, so he is maybe only 22-23, but feels a lot older.
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All the shirts and pants, she’s gonna have a clothing metamorphasis and be in traditional dresses before finding happiness in love isn’t she? 😦
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Of course!
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And learn to cook properly and happily!
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NO! I want her to at least stay a terrible cook!
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She does stay a terrible selfish person who wants what she wants when she wants it, which is MOST important.
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Everyone should be able to cook!!
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We do get that later! She finds it a useful skill to have while living her life beyond just “catching” a guy.
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Aha! The song playing when they were 18 is from a 1995 movie, so figure they were 18 in 1996, which means he is 5 years older than the heroine. That works for me, she is 18 and about to finish high school, he is 23 and running the family farm.
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ANd the symbolism of the arrows?
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Being her own Cupid like at the beginning with the cartoon!
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Oh, I like this better than my theory!
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Wow, thank you! Coming from you that means a lot and you are the expert here 🙂 😀
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Bow and arrow are a traditional symbol of the “hero” of an epic. She is her own hero, she will shoot her own love down, and so on.
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Christians are a minority, is there the same antagonism towards them as Muslims or does the lack of a Christian Pakistan mean less prejudice?
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Christians are persecuted in many regions in India, especially lower caste Christians (which many are since Christianity promises equality outside of caste). There have been massacres within the past few years.
However, Kerala is different, Christianity has been there almost from the beginning,s upposedly brought by Apostle Thomas (I think). The Christians are barely a minority.
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Oooo, talking back to the cops, very sexy
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Is it though???
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It is when they are generally kind of corrupt and have set up a speed trap in an attempt to get bribes, which I think is what is happening here.
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So he gained respect from the police by beating them up…I don’t know about sexy, but the completely different mentality from my own country is as always, fascinating.
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