Innale

Innale meaning yesterday, in Malayalam…

It is the story of a young woman (Shobana) who lost all her memories after a bus accident during a pilgrimage through the southern parts of India. The bus accident took place far away from where she called home, a bus accident in which she was the only survivor, a bus accident she remembers nothing about.

The doctors at this hill staion hospital tell her to be gateful that she is alive. They say that the memory loss is a small prize to pay for her life, a life to come, memories to make. Be happy they said, she had survived.

The film is set in a hilly town somewhere in the Kerala/Tamil Nadu border. Large parts of the town are owned by a single family, a mother & son whose ancestors owned this entire land, developed the area, constructed the hospital, school, the local club, cottages on he road side …

Their unevenful life is disturbed one night when a bus met with an accident and fell into the river. Most of the passengers died except 3 died during that fall. Among the three, a girl survived. She has minimal physical injury but every bit of her past until then was wiped clean. She could not recollect anything before he woke up at the hospital. As nobody came for her, the mother & son decide to rehabilitate her in their town in consultation with the police. She begins to make new memories, but she looks forward for anybody who comes forward as her relative. Her search to find her bearings continue. Meanwhile she falls in love with the doctor’s son, after much anguish the doctor agrees to this match, their wedding is fixed. The phone rings again .. somebody came in search for her, somebody who came specifically looking for her..

One of the few films where I love the subtlety in actor Suresh Gopi. Innale.. when yesterday is no more, there is only the present and the future to look forward to…