Today, Kanchanamala calls herself the unmarried widow of Moideen.Įnnu Ninte Moideen is produced by Newtown Movies.

During this period the lovers only communicated through letters. But their love was frowned upon and she was kept under house arrest for ten years by her family. The story is set in the ’60s and ’70s in Mukkam (Kozhikode), where Moideen and Kanchanamala grew up.

Rasheed, was involved at the scripting stage and joined the film’s star, Prithviraj, on set. Ennu Ninte Moideen was built from anecdotes shared by Moideen’s family and Kanchanamala. The challenge lay in condensing more than 36 years in a two-hour screenplay. “They loved for over 25 years and with no physical relationship between them,” said Vimal, who quit work six years ago to make Ennu Ninte Moideen. The story nagged at him until he made a documentary, Jalam Kondu Murivettaval. Vimal first learnt of this love story while working for a Malayalam television channel. With an overwhelming response since its release in Kerala last month, Vimal’s debut may get a Tamil remake. Vimal dared to explore a real story with his first film is brave indeed. Kanchanamala lives on, resting solely on the bank of memories that Moideen left behind. Moideen died in 1982 while recusing people from a capsized boat in Iruvanji river in Kerala. Kanchanamala and Moideen’s story - the tale of a Hindu woman and a Muslim man - shares a similar fate. Culture, religion and society have many a time stood in the way of two hearts aching to be one - think Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet or India’s Salim-Anarkali.

The most compelling love stories are the most tragic ones.

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