A short, dark, 44 yearold who desperately wants to be an actor in Malluwood, Rajappan [Sreenivasan] asks Udayan[Mohanlal]: "Udaya, nintey padathilay Hero Njanalley. Makeup ittal njan sundaranakum" [Udaya, I will be the Hero of your movie. If I put on make up I will look handsome]
To which Udayan[Mohanlal] replies: "Phu, Makeup-inokkay oru paridhiyilley-dey! [Phew, even "make-up" has its limits!]
Just the kind of movie I craved, when I am reading research literature written to make sure that it remains a research publication not worth the paper it is written on. Like movies about movies, there should be movies on Ph.d's. Why don't researcher's write in simple language? Why a 'researcher's language'? Even research has it's limits. That limitation is language, and English is the worst language of them all.
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I believe the translation of UDAYANANNUTHARAM should be UDAYAN IS THE STAR
I felt that Sreenivaasan should not have acted in this movie... as his cliche drossed, typecasted character! Everything else about the movie was great. The character Mohanlal played was one of the strongest (read realistic) to hit the screen in recent times... and of course this was a watershed moment for buffs interested in movie making!
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