RasheedвЂ™s son, Roshan, plays MoideenвЂ™s childhood friend. Tovino Thomas plays Appu, KanchanamalaвЂ™s cousin. Sudheesh Karamana plays MoideenвЂ™s friend Mukkam Bhasi. The supporting cast includes Sai Kumar as MoideenвЂ™s father and Lena as his mother. Today, Kanchanamala calls herself the unmarried widow of Moideen.Д®nnu 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 вЂ™60s and вЂ™70s in Mukkam (Kozhikode), where Moideen and Kanchanamala grew up. Rasheed, was involved at the scripting stage and joined the filmвЂ™s star, Prithviraj, on set. Ennu Ninte Moideen was built from anecdotes shared by MoideenвЂ™s family and Kanchanamala. The challenge lay in condensing more than 36 years in a two-hour screenplay. вЂњThey loved for over 25 years and with no physical relationship between them,вЂќ 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, VimalвЂ™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 MoideenвЂ™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 ShakespeareвЂ™s Romeo and Juliet or IndiaвЂ™s Salim-Anarkali. The most compelling love stories are the most tragic ones.

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