It is an extreme, extraordinary celebration of a woman who has suffered and sacrificed for love. You should bottle the Iruvazhinji water and sell it for 100 bucks each,” jokes someone to Kanchana. Now its bank has become an unlikely pilgrimage spot. The river has seen her love ebb and flow. I want to drink its water,” says a 45-year-old businessman who has come with his family to see Kanchana. The river Iruvazhinji has been central to her love story. Kottangal Kanchanamala in her office in Mukkam, a cutout of Moideen behind her. Ramees Abdulrahiman, 19, says, “I have watched the movie four times already,” before he asks Kanchanamala, better known as Kanchana, to pose for a selfie with him. She spent the next 30 years as the widow of a man she never married, determinedly serving the world around her in his name.Įvery day for the past one month, since the movie Ennu Ninte Moideen (Yours Truly, Moideen), based on her early life and star-crossed love, began running to packed cinema halls in Kerala, hundreds of people have been streaming to this rundown shed with a rusting board, BP Moideen Seva Mandir, as though it is a shrine to a love that they long for, but can’t aspire to. But one June morning in 1982, Moideen drowned in the river Iruvazhinji when the boat he was travelling in capsized. She waited 30 years to be with him, determinedly living for the one great passion in her life. Malayalis have fallen for this real-life heroine who gave almost 60 years of her life for her beloved, BP Moideen. “She” is 75-year-old Kottangal Kanchanamala, who has become the talisman for true love in Kerala.
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