Pranchiyettan and the Saint

Got to catch this movie yesterday and absolutely loved it. It is the first ever Malayalam film that I saw. I didn't understand the language much, but subtitles were of great help. I believe Mammooty uses the typical Trissur accent in the movie, I wasn't able to enjoy much of that though, but his acting was totally laudable.

The hero, Pranchi(Mammooty) is a wealthy man who stays discontented in life for the most part. When he goes to the church, he sees Saint Francis, whom Pranchi is a staunch believer of. The fictional conversation that happens between Pranchi and the Saint is what the whole film is about.

Pranchi keeps cribbing to the saint about a lot of encounters with different people and calls himself a failure. His attempts to make himself a big man in society end up in vain. Now he wants to adopt a boy as his son and asks the Saint if that will also end up otherwise.

This is when the saint gives him a vision of what is happening in the lives of other people to whom Prachi thought he lost. And everyone one of them were having their own set of problems.

The learning for me from this film - staying contented with what is destined to me. I will still try working towards my goal, but if I end up not-succeeding, I'd better not call it failure. There is a big picture that I am not aware of, so I'd rather not jump into conclusions.

The movie reminds me of another famous saying - Count your blessings. I never know the value of anything I have, until I lose it. I know this for a fact, but I've not grown a bit.

More than calling the conversation between Pranchi and the Saint a fiction or fantasy, I like calling it introspection and realization. Since Saint Francis was the one who Prachi always looked up to, he got his realization through him.

The message was conveyed in a very humorous way.

Knowing the language would have been a plus for me, but I am contented with everything else that the movie had to give :)