| Desatanakkili Karayarilla | |
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| Directed by | Padmarajan[1] |
| Written by | Padmarajan |
| Starring | Karthika Shaari Mohanlal Urvashi |
| Music by | Raveendran |
| Cinematography | Venu |
| Editing by | B. Lenin |
| Release date(s) | 1986 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Desatanakkili Karayarilla (English: The Migratory Bird Never Cries) is a 1986 Malayalam film written and directed by Padmarajan.[1] It stars Karthika, Shaari, Mohanlal and Urvashi in pivotal roles.[2][3] The film tells the story of two school girls who eloped while on a school trip. The was critically well acclaimed, being the first film that talked about the inexplicable love between same sex. It was one of the first Indian films with lesbian undertones.
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The film is about the inexplicable love between two girls, Sally and the meek and tradition-bound Nirmala. The two girls run away during a school trip in order to punish their teacher Devika who organised the trip. Their journey is soon interrupted by a man, Harisankar, who mysteriously befriends the girls and begins a romantic relationship with Nirmala. Sally strongly objects to this relationship and warns her friend against the suspicious nature of the man. Nirmala, who was almost convinced to leave everything behind to be with the man she loves, gets a shock when she finds out that the man was actually in love with the teacher whom she despised and ran away from. Unable to find a way out of the misery that befalls them, Sally and Nirmala cling on to each other and commit suicide.
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