Suppress the Quarantine boredom with Mouna Ragam

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Mouna Ragam: A movie that you shouldn't miss watching!

A key to suppress the Quarantine boredom.


Mouna Ragam
An Illustration by PR Gayathri

Movies twirl the ocean of emotions in us, don't they? A great movie definitely makes our day and one such movie is Mouna Ragam - a timeless piece of magic by Mani Ratnam. This 1986 Tamil classic tale is one of kind and I will tell you why!

Days when movies mostly spoke only the male's perspective, days when women protagonists' major role was the disciplined homely girl or shy girlfriend who appears only when a sudden song burst out of nowhere in the mountains of the north, where he is in his full suit-coat and she is in her undergarments dancing like diva only to vanish after that! I used to wonder what was her role in the whole movie? Why is she playing such a dumb character? Did the original script had a part for her or was her role an unnecessary creation to lure the audience in!

Mouna Ragam stood different from those! It tells the story of Divya (excellently played by the beautiful Revathi) a young college girl who is naughty, daring, adamant, unapologetically demanding just opposite to how a "woman should behave" agenda of the usual cinema culture. We immediately fall in love with her innocence and quirky cute actions so did Chandrakumar, a decent young man who is an acquaintance of her father from Delhi.

Divya purposefully comes home late all drenched in rain silently making clear her rejection of the idea of marriage and expecting the groom and his family, who came to see her, to have left her home by then. But to her surprise, they waited and even after she confessed her unwillingness to get married, Chandrakumar tells he likes her (Well, free-spirited pretty girl is a good catch!). Her family situation and poor dad's health forced her to get married to him. Convincing her is not an easy task, a heart attack, angry siblings and crying mother pleading her to death made her to giveaway her reins and marry an unknown man.

She is married off to Delhi, though her heart was still craving for her long lost love Manohar, a college romance that didn't end the way she expected it to be. Her anger and frustration are made clear to Chandrakumar and she is not sorry about anything (Why should she be?). She doesn't let him touch her and snaps back harshly to every kind words from him. Living in an unknown place with an unknown man, she isn't tamed of the situation rather stands her ground and asks for a divorce when her husband lovingly asks, "What shall I get you as our marriage gift?" (Dope!)

Chandrakumar is too good to be true kinda man, probably the kind that exists only in the fictional world. Or can we just say a man who loves his woman wholeheartedly?

How a love story weaves between these two souls is what Mounaragam tells us. A pure bliss!
It makes us cringe, cry, crave and fall in love that's blended with a clash of ego, impish grin and funny pranks!  Illayaraaja's music is the icing on the cake in this moving bringing shiver down the spine and elating a whole new experience of life!

Bored at home and wondering how to spent the Quarantine - How about looking back in time and experience the romance in the 80s? , How about reliving and revisiting magic of a story that leaves you with a smile? Well, then Mouna Ragam is the perfect movie that you must watch!


Watch Mouna Ragam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN2qB0jZT7k





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Meanwhile please stay safe indoors and stay healthy.
We shall overcome this hard phase of life and put an end to this pandemic.


Comment below your thoughts on the movie or your favourite 80s/90s throwback film! 

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  1. Ksenia AkhunovaMarch 29, 2020 at 8:32 PM

    Very well summarised. Thanks for leaving the link).

    If you have a few minutes to spare, would you mind checking out my blog and commenting what you're looking forward to doing after the coronavirus situation eases off, under the entry titled 'After the pandemic'? Thank you))

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