Anjali Menon-the woman face of malayalam cinema?
Have you heard of this intelligent women? well, Anjali menon is the director of “Manjadikuru” – a recently made feature film in malayalam which has won the awards
- Best Film of Malayalam – IIFK conducted @ Trivandrum
- Best Indian debut Director – Anjali Menon – IIFK
Go through WikiPedia if you want more about IIFK & Awards
I haven’t watched this film or know anything about this film yet! What I only know is an outline which I picked from her blog & is like
How many folks out there have grown up outside India and remember going back on holiday to our tiny hometowns? The annual vacation which would be marked clearly on those Indian calendars hanging on foreign walls. Weeks in advance the shopping would be done- a gift for the second cousin, sweets for the nephews, medicinal oils and balms for the older uncles, a scent spray for the new couple. And finally the day would come to set out for the home shores.
I was a Gulf kid and our vacations were always during the Middle eastern summers which wonderfully coincided with the monsoon showers of Kerala, India. There are a thousand things I remember about those times. Today I have moved back to India and am a filmmaker making my first feature film soon. The film “Manjadikuru” is about those very impressions. Like the lucky red seeds – they will remain little nuggets of memory that throb every time one smells wet earth or sees a touch-me-not flower or hears “Manjil virinja poove…”- a hit song from early 80s.
I came to know about Anjali Menon from TV (1 month before in a news channel) & today I happened to watch a talk show with this woman in MM TV. To be frank I got attracted to her observations,intelligence,view on her profession, view on cinemas,life etc. Well, the uniqueness that makes medias to boast off about Anjali is that shes a woman!! Its a great attempt that should be admitted & admired, compared to many other women who doesn’t even think of doing anything! (hmm!!..not all women actually!…there are ladies who makes their mark in this world & sometimes even a bolder mark than men!!)
There are only few people who gets to work on their dream or passion & pursue what their heart desires! Anjali is one among that & I wish her all success for her future works! I am a serious admirer of Malayalam cinema, who wishes it to regain the quality of 80′s & 90′s and I hope Anjali will do her role in that process!
Film “Manjadikuru” is performed by Pritviraj, Murali & Thilakan (as i heard from MM News). I will review this movie here in my blog after watching it soon!
You can know more about Anjali in her blog: www.luckyredseeds.blogspot.com
I Googled a lot for her picture but failed to find one! Sorry!!
About me! what to say...
January 19th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Hi Jojo,
Thank you very much for the excellent blog that you have featured above on Anjali Menon. We, as Keralite women are extremely proud of her for following her dreams and making it a reality and bringing to the forefront realistic Malayalam cinema that we have all loved in the past.
I just had one comment and I hope that you wouldn’t mind that I am requesting you to do this, since your blog is featured on the Manjadikuru facebook groupsite, I wanted to request you to please amend the spelling of “women” that you have utilised in the blog, it should read as “woman” as you are referring only to her.
Thank you once again for the wonderful review and I will definitely continue to read all your blogs as you seem to have an excellent viewpoint on a lot of varied subjects.
Have a great day !!
Regards……………Anitha Jaikrishnan
a very big fan of Anjali Menon
January 19th, 2009 at 3:10 am
@ Anitha
Thanks for the comment! I have corrected the spelling errors and a special thanks for your decision to come back to my blog!
May 4th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I m afraid to admit the fact that there are fake anjali menon floating around in facebook
one of them approached me and told me she is Anjali menon director from kerala, is interested in making a movie with me. As per the request I sent my pics, she forced me to come in web cam chat but i avoided. She gave me a no but it’s switched off. when i asked her, she said she is in cario that why i didnot get her on phone. 
i wonder how many gals must hav become a prey like this?
her face book id is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000996738303&ref=ts
before the name was Anjali menon, now changed to Daffodil Menon.
HELP !!
May 5th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Hi Sindu,
This is her real profile, I think: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000996738303