Saw the film Malikappuram in Malayalam .
A superhit without the expected credentials of a superstar or superbudget or super controversy .
No nothing .
It's about the spirit of Sabarimala itself actually .
The worship of this ancient hill temple in Kerala views humanity with tolerance love and brotherhood and It's hardy climb promotes this oneness amongst people .
Trying to break this great message of the temple by creating controversies and harming It's believers and those who safeguard It's traditions and abusing Its devotees is what the present Goverment in Kerala has been doing for last 4 years ,
At same time it has been looting it through it's Dewasoms handling it's administrations .
I felt this in the film is depicted as the lowly villains who are handled as they need to be , by the valiant policeman on duty, the hero Unnimukundan whose superhuman efforts to help the two children and to millions of devotees was that of the the Lord himself symbolically .
I feel this is where the film succeeded the most
Of course the brilliant acting of the hero , his handsome looks ,and that of the two loveable children and slick direction is to be applauded .
But to me its the hurt lurking in the hearts of every Sabaraimala devotee of how his beliefs were trampled , and how his temple is being looted by low men and women arrogant enough to know nothing of its true meaning .
These wretches can never ever comprehend the great spiritual power of unity and goodness Sabarimala personifies.
Instead of using it as a message to unity and secularism and promoting such an example of tolerance amongst religion and true secularism it had represented ,these people along with the ignorant judges of the Supreme Court who knew nothing of its ethos nor took effort to understand it made the temple distorted and feudal .
They made it ,an orthodox outdated brahministic religious monstrosity .
( the portrayal of the Brahmin as the ultimate bogeyman has been used by these pseudos for long )
It's the giving back to the villains in the picture by a one man hero ,who to not only the children , but to every hurt devotee felt was Ayyappa himself , giving the much needed slap to the architect of the abuse who rules kerala today that made the film a superhit .
This hurt was the true reason for the film becoming a sucess .
Its the sadness lurking in every genuine Ayyappa devotee in his subconscious that got a cinematic closure .
That's what brought the tears out .
The anger the frustration the unfairness of it all got a release at least through a film .
It's may be just a film but It's also the inner desire and hope of the people that the man who did all this will get his slap in due course .
We do feel Lord Ayyappa will rise in the horizon to give his resounding slap to the man who deserves it .
On that day I for one will cheer hard .
Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa
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