The film Charlie (Malayalam, 2015) won 8 state awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Cinematography, and was remade in Bengali as Surjo, Marathi as Deva and Tamil as Maara. It was directed by Martin Prakkat with Dulquer Salmaan and Parvathy in the lead roles, Gopi Sunder scoring the music and Jomon T. John in charge of cinematography.
The song "Pularikalo Sandhyagalo" (Dawns & Dusks) was written by Rafeeq Ahammed and sung by Shakthisree Gopalan and Md. Maqbool Mansoor.
Song situation: Tessa is a software technician who can earn a living. Her parents want her to marry someone whom she can’t imagine as her life partner. As the parents force, she escapes to a friend’s place in Kochi city and rents an apartment. It’s dilapidated and has many things left by its previous vagabond tenant, Charlie, who phones her but refuses to take them away immediately even when Tessa warns of disposing them. The song starts there showing her waking up the next morning, making her coffee and looking closer at the things created/installed by Charlie. She begins to admire their artistry and innovation. Changing her mind, she cleans his arts/artefacts and keeps them in order.
The lyrics have been translated from Malayalam into English and displayed on the video to enable the wider audience to understand and appreciate the song better.
For non-monetary cultural and educational purposes.
Click the link to watch the music video: https://youtu.be/k9F_cKLMl8o?si=zxaXs8dR7gP9UG7Q
