Ustad hotel malayalam movie movie#

“Iss duniya mein agar Jannat hai, toh bas yahi hai, yahi hai, yahi hai… Subhanallah!” I hadn’t experienced anything as thrilling as that! That moment will remain among my favourite memories in life. Every dialogue was lapped up by the audience and I felt every heart beat in that theatre.

Ustad hotel malayalam movie movie#

Anwar had knocked it out of the park! Ustad Hotel was Mon’s first movie and this film will always be the same age as my child. There was a crew waiting somewhere for the third act of this movie, so it had to be done… But most of all I wanted to keep up the faith my director had put in me.ġ0 months later, on the release day I saw “Ustad Hotel” in a movie theatre with my baby on my lap. I was feeding the baby, putting him to sleep, writing the script, feeding the baby, putting him to sleep, writing the script. Utterly joyful time, but very few people know that I got back to work within 10 days of the delivery. It kept me happy through all those months of staying indoors for in my head I was flitting through so many spaces and characters.Īfter I sent in the second act, I was rushing through the third act but before I could – surprise surprise… My baby turned up nearly a month before the date. Not knowing anything about how writers work here, I just wrote the way I knew and he would gently nudge on. And yet there we were, dreaming a new dream together. Even for a moment he wasn’t deterred by the many reasons that deter most in this industry – newcomer writer, zero commercial experience, limited Malayalam, and a happily pregnant woman to boot!įor me, I had seen the sensitivity with which Anwar directed ‘Bridge’ – his short film in Kerala Cafe and that was what my faith was built on. He handed me a token advance to write his next film. That day he got all excited and left the house only to return in a few minutes.

I did and he turned up in a week to hear it.

He was intrigued by the “Uppuppa” one and asked if I could make some notes for him to understand it better. One day I called Anwar to share some stories I had been thinking of. If you ask me the Kozhikodan food menu is made entirely of comfort foods that feed one’s soul. I didn’t know then that in two years time we’d be creating Ustad Hotel together! 🙂Ĭut to 2011 I was at home in Calicut being pampered silly in the first trimester of pregnancy while being advised bed rest. It smelled delicious and as I helped myself I asked “where is this biryani from?” The director who smiled at my biryani love and answered my question was Anwar Rasheed. At lunchtime, biryani packets arrived at the table. All the directors arrived and I was meeting most of them for the first time. It does seem like life is a screenplay where the plot points are buried well 🙂Īpril 2009 – We were at the first discussion meeting for Kerala Cafe in Kochi.

A simple fable about life around USTAD HOTEL – a charming old world restaurant on Calicut Beach.