Mazha

Mazha
Mazha
	Ravindran
Production; company	Millenium Cinema Productions
Distributed by	Murali Films; Aakash Films; Thanoof Films
Release date	4 August 2000;
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Mazha (transl. Rain) is a 2000 Indian

Ravindran. The film won five Kerala State Film Awards, a National Film Award, and a South Filmfare Award.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

Mazha tells the love story of Bhadra (Samyuktha Varma) and her music teacher, Sastrigal (Biju Menon). The film begins with teenager Bhadra coming to learn music under Sastrigal and getting infatuated with him and his singing in Sivapuram. The story describes her character and behavior in a nice mood. In her teenage years, Madhura is a beautiful village inhabited by Tamil Brahmins, including the shasthrikal. She falls in love with her music teacher (shasthrikal) because of her young age and curiosity towards his music.

The story runs in the surroundings of the famous

Meenakshi Amman Temple

in Tamil Nadu. Bhadra's creative talents for poetry start to flourish under his influence. Sastrigal is not much aware of Bhadra's love and considers her only as his talented student. Coming to know about Bhadra's infatuation, her parents take her with them, and Sastrigal is obliged to marry his fiancée(Sindhu).

Bhadra becomes a doctor (like her father) and is married to Chandran (Lal) who is a computer engineer. Chandran happens to see her diary one day and the relationship goes for a toss. Of course, there are no names in the diary. So he goes on to doubt every male in her life – including the elderly senior doctor Thilakan. He becomes a victim of his drinking and dies of a related illness.

In the end, Bhadra sets out in search of Sastrigal to Madurai where she discovers that Sastrigal also has lost much – his wife is a mental patient. The final shock is when she finds out that Sastrigal has lost his beautiful voice due to cancer.

Cast

Biju Menon as Ramanuja Sasthrigal
Samyuktha Varma as Dr. Bhadra Nair
Lal as Chandran
Sindhu Shyam as Jnanam
Thilakan as Dr.
Devi Ajith as Gayathri
Urmila Unni as Saraswathy Madhavan Nair
Jagathy Sreekumar as vaikunda Shastrikal

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack contains nine songs composed by

Yusuf Ali Kecheri, and K. Jayakumar

.

#	Title	Singer(s)	Raga(s)	Lyricist
1	"Ithramel Manamulla"	K. J. Yesudas	Mohanam	K. Jayakumar
2	"Manjinte"	K. S. Chitra	Bageshri	K. Jayakumar
3	"Geyam Harinaamadheyam"	K. J. Yesudas, Arundhathi, Neyyattinkara Vasudevan	Charukesi	Yusuf Ali Kecheri
4	"Himashaila"	K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chitra, Arundhathi	(Raagamalika: Neelambari, Kharaharapriya, Kalyanavasantam) \|\| Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri
5	"Vaarmukile"	K. S. Chitra	Jog	Yusuf Ali Kecheri
6	"Aashaadham"	K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chitra	Amrithavarshini	K. Jayakumar
7	"Paarukkulle Nalla Naadu"	Neyyattinkara Vasudevan	Jonpuri	Bharathiyar
8	"Aaraadyam"	Asha G. Menon	Mohanam	O. V. Usha
9	"Himashaila"	K. J. Yesudas	(Raagamalika: Neelambari, Kharaharapriya, Kalyanavasantam) \|\| Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

Reception

Despite positive reviews, the film was a commercial failure.[4]^[5]

According to Arun of The Indian Express, "it's due to the phenomenal success of Narasimham. Its massive success cast a gigantic shadow that devoured the entire Malayalam film industry. Well almost "The Narasimham hangover is terrifically strong and it has, at least for the moment, killed the prospects of good films. I don't see any other reason for the failure of well made female-oriented films like Mazha and Madhuranombarakkattu."^[6]^{[failed verification]}