Ennum Ninte Moideen - true life love story of an unwed widow

Expatriates from Calicut – a city in the South Indian state of Kerala – are thronging cinemas in the UAE to watch ‘Ennum Ninte Moideen’ – a movie based on the true life story of a couple from the city.

Kottangal Kanchanamala, who is now about 75 years old, has survived to watch her life story unfold on screen. She has been living as an unwed widow of Moideen for the last three decades, after his untimely death in a boat tragedy.

Kanchanamala hails from a conservative Hindu family of Mukkam, Calicut, and BP Moideen, belonged to conservative Muslim family.

Written by a former journalist, R S Vimal, the movie traces the love story of Kanchanamala and Moideen. How the society harassed them and how they withstood their relationship in the 1970s is captured effectively.

Moideen reportedly died a few days before she was to settle down with him.

Moideen, played by heartthrob Prithviraj, and Kanjanamala, essayed by Parvathi Menon, is running well in the UAE.  The movie has many dramatic moments, such as Moidden’s father stabbing him for loving a woman whom he disapproves of and the several occasions when their plan to elope are thwarted by circumstances.

She waited for 30 years to wed him and has spent more than three decades as his unwed widow, after Moideen drowned after his boat capzised in 1982.

She still keeps the fading handwritten love letters Moideen gave her. The couple used a special script, which only they understood, so as to evade being caught by their conservative families.

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