A planecrash in the 1100s

I just received my large box of Moser Baer DVDs. Ever since their website launched, I've been checking out their collection and planning on placing an order. I am so uncomfortable with buying online, though, that I've been putting it off. After I received my first rejection letter from the first publisher I sent my book to, my mind went all wonky for a bit and I did a variety of mildly crazy things.

One of these included ordering 40 Malayalam DVDs.
(If anyone is interested, other crazy things included going offline for a week, transforming Ken's school project into a work of art by cutting out individual blades of grass for the garden of his house model, making 3 dresses in white and blue for Kaavya – all of them too tight in the chest!) and heading out in the afternoon sun to buy a plain black raincoat for Ken. See my craziness is not very unbalanced these days! Or perhaps I was not as affected by the rejection as I should be.)

Anyway, I picked Vanaprastam as the first film to watch. I hate criticising movies because of the immense effort that goes into making them. But honestly, for no reason this film set the events in the 1100s and featured pens, a telephone, a planecrash and a car....

I have no idea why they picked the 1100s. Or was it the early 1900s they meant and the typos made all the 9s into 1s? Loopholes are all very well, but something so obvious? As for the film, it was about Mohanlal and Suhasini and katahkali. Somehow many of the subtleties that one looks for in good Malayalam films were missing. There was a soul there somewhere. But the performer overshadowed the soul a bit.