Love and its different shapes and sizes — Amaran movie blurb
Snehamanakhila sara moozhiyil was written by Mahakavi Kumaranasan in his poem Nalini. He is a reformist poet from Malayalam. This above statement translates to — Love encompasses the world. It’s a universal language, simply put.
A recent movie outing — Amaran, a Tamil movie from 2024, is an honest portrayal of the life of a war veteran from our times — Major Mukund and his young wife — Indu. Goose bumpy moments in the movie The First Rush of Love, how they retain and nurture it over long distances, how they contain it in crisis situations, and how they lost it for the country are beautifully and authentically portrayed by Sivakartikeyan and Sai Pallavi. Later, from press meets, I learned that most of those moments were recreated from real life with very little dramatization, giving me goosebumps. Can such love exist? What started as, to me, an infatuation in college days between senior and junior students through close interaction, how can it allow them to be apart and nurture a child later and lose it and still be stoic about it? Indu, the war widow, was present in many film promos; she refers to her “Love” in the present, saying, “ I can’t say I loved him, but I love him,” was her words.
We are told to bring love to anything, and it encompasses it. As the poet rightly said, the above was romantic love, which transcended into eternal love, as we can call it. We tend to do otherwise; we love to be loved back, maybe. If we flip it even when lovingly doing an activity, it can be a game changer.
