Malayalam movie Yathra
Mammootty Shobhana in the lead role
The Malayalam movie Yathra is one of the best movie in Malayalam cinema released in 1985 which hold you in the theater till the climax. The movie Yathra is the remake of telugu movie Nireekshana. The both movies in telugu and malayalam are directed by Balu Mahendra who directed another masterpiece in Malayalam titled ‘Olangal’.
The story take place in 1975 – 1977 when nation wide emergency declared. Mammootty plays the role as Unnikrishnan , a forest officer who fall in love with a local girl Thulasi ( played by Malayalam actress Shobhana ) and decide to marry her. Unnikrishnan got arrested by the police seeing the similarity of another criminal as Unnikrishnan. In the jail Unnikrishnan accidentally kill a police constable and he goes to jail. Unnikrishnan wrote Thulasi to forget him. After the jail term with little hope Unnikrishnan write to thulasi if she is still waiting for him light a lamp under the tree near road. At the end Unnikrishnan seeing that thousand of candle lit under the tree and Thulasi is waiting for him. Mammootty got the special jury award and film fare award for his acting in this movie.