sunday mallu movie

My friend jayashree has been an ardent fan of mallu movies for more than two decades.She used to wax eloquent about sunday morning movie time on tv.Been hearing her patiently but never could get around to trying it out.I keep watching mallu programmes off and on.My interest in watching mallu programmes started during my earlier posting in training college.Used to get trainees from Kerala and observing them and their language made me want to learn and appreciate the language.Internal marketing, if you will.
Today i sat plonk in front of the tv for the 11 am movie.Ubiquitous mohanlal and vivacious and beautiful shobana.So i sat rooted there for the next 3 hours much to athai's surprise. She kept asking me if i am able to follow the storyline. But then whatever gaps in understanding of the language is more than made up by the pleasant locales,realistic and aesthetically narrated story line and man, wonderful songs. I remembered reading suhasini's view on malayalam movies. she said when you travel through kerala and look out of the train,they are almost a leaf out of malayalam movies!
This story was set in a rural ambience with lots of cattle and bullock carts. In fact most of the movie is shot during a travel sequence in a bullock cart travel.I was so enchanted by the cattle, i told kumar that i want to go to a cattle shandy.He got scared and said there are no such shandies held anywhere near here nowadays!!!
Now i am into this addiction; i can see myself veering towards the tv on sunday mid mornings and everything else will swirl around this latest fixation!!