Mummy And Me - A lovely Malayalam Film

Mummy and Me is a Malayalam talkie written and directed by Jeethu Joseph. It is based on a story of a young girl, the situations that confront her and the condition in which she finds herself in. I really loved it. Now let me go into some touching aspects of the film:

Home: home is not same as house (a structure) but a real home is where people interact with each other, influence and affect each other. Here in this film though Juel (the heroine of the movie) feels homeless. She is a typical youngster representing her age group. She has problems.

Few observations within the scenes of the film:

She cannot stomach the taunting behaviour of her mummy; she does not want to be controlled. In fact, when she comes late from dance class, she states the reason for being late. After all she is not a child but a grown up girl.

Her tendency of breaking away from the immediate control of parents and trying to be independent is the typical behaviour of her age group.

Her mummy perhaps is over protective. She overhears the phone calls that come to her and want to know every detail of whatever happens to her.

The question that often comes in the minds of the young could be – is it possible to enter into genuine relationship? What are the dangers lurking behind individual actions. These questions come alive in the presentation of Juel’s online relationship with Amir. Virtual relationship is very common these days. A good analysis of what happens in virtual friendship is clearly brought out in the film. In a virtual relationship, there is a problem of revelation between the two parties, uncertainties are inevitable. Is virtual relationship truly genuine? Could be, depending on the sincerity and genuineness of the person encountered virtually. Amir represents the few honest persons who are really concerned with the good of the other person. There are possibilities of betrayal. Responsibility and respect is the key in entering into a true virtual friendship. It can also happen that in such friendships the young people may feel the ties of emotional dependency without they being aware of this fact. Particularly in this aspect of vulnerability, that most young people are betrayed and manipulated. You can even expect the unexpected from such kind of relationship. In the film, She is just in her blooming existence and on the other side her virtual friend is a muslim aged 54. He is a person living at the mercy of medicines for survival.

What is important in the stormy age of teenage is that youngsters should know and feel that someone is with them to make informed choices to travel the roads of safety and happiness. The role of parents here comes to the fore. Usually what parents intend is for the good of their children. But for the rebelling youngster, it is hard to listen to parents. Though the parents were themselves experiences the storm and rage being a teen, they cannot just exactly find similarity in the experience of their children and equate and compare with their own times. The intensity of the problems that today’s young face is vastly incommensurate with the then situations of the parents. It is a good movie to watch especially for those in educating the young, those who are constantly with the young people and their world – these include youth workers, teachers, parents, Salesians, counselors, young and old. A very good film and a must watch.