Lekhayude Maranam: Oru Flashback

This is a tragic Malayalam film based on life of actress Shoba (screen name) who sparkled in her brief career only to commit suicide at a young age of 18.

The film has Bharat Gopi and Mammootty playing key roles - those of Balu Mahendra and Prem Nazir respectively.

The film gives an honest view - gritty but being careful not to get sleazy and miss the point - of the compromises young talented women had to make in order to even achieve their well deserved success in the male dominated film industry. Shoba's story was no different. Her mother - even though a veteran supporting actor herself - couldn't ease her way, and instead chose to stay a mute spectator to what her experience showed her to be the only way to get her daughter towards success.

It was a spiral downwards - especially given the daughter's youth and lack of experience - is what the mother missed, in the end costing her daughter's life. The mother herself died of heartbreak a year later in real life..

Watch this to get a perspective of the other side of tinsel town .

They portray mother character as negative and money minded but in reality mother character is positive and caring even if she money minded why she died after 1 year after her daughter death and they even release this film after shoba's mom death. Even there is no complaints raise from that balumahendra. So it seems so obvious shoba lover balumahendra is the villain here in Shoba life.