Summary: 1986 137’ col Malayalam
d/sc/dial P. Padmarajan pc Ragom Movies
p Mani Malliath st K.K. Sudhakaran
lyr O.N.V. Kurup m Johnson
lp Mohanlal, Shari, Thilakan, Vineeth,
Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Omana
Two Malayali Christian families settled near
Mysore in Karnataka provide the setting for this
tragic romance in verse, evoking the biblical
‘Song of Solomon’. Solomon (Mohanlal) falls in
love with Sofia (Shari), the illegitimate daughter
of a nurse now married to an alcoholic railway
mechanic (Thilakan). The lovers declaim verse
riddled with biblical references as they drive
around in a tanker lorry. Sofia’s stepfather,
priding himself for having married a single
parent, is determined to get Sofia to marry his
junior colleague and drinking partner.
However, when Sofia’s mother agrees to a
marriage proposal from Solomon’s family, the
stepfather rapes Sofia and, at the end of the
film, he is seen dragging her, still wearing her
white bridal dress, towards his vineyards.
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