Thoovanathumbikal

Thoovanathumbikal (English: Dragonflies in the Spraying Rain) is a 1987 Indian Malayalam romantic drama film written and directed by P. Padmarajan, based partly on his own novel Udakappola. It revolves around Jayakrishnan (Mohanlal) who falls in love with two women; Radha (Parvathy), a distant relative of his, and Clara (Sumalatha), an escort in town. The film was a superhit at the box office and over the years it has turned into a cult film with a large following. The film was ranked #8 by IBN Live in its list of greatest Indian films of all time. The film is widely noted for its rich film score and songs, dialogues and characters, detailed screenplay Mohanlal's and sumalatha 's performance. Rain is a recurring theme and is portrayed almost as a character in the film. The BGM used in the intimate scenes of Mohanlal and Sumalatha is so popular and is used as mobile ring tone by a lot of people. The characterisation of Clara changed the concept about desirable woman of a lot of Malayalee bachelors. Even now Clara remain as an evergreen dream of Malayalees which no other female character could achieve by, in Malayalam movie history.