But Clara is very practical and ambitious. The leading girl of Novemberinte Nashtam is a happy-go-lucky girl who falls in love with a man who uses her only for the physical pleasure and leaves her in a mental shock which in turn makes her a murderer. Here Clara is an exact opposite to the female lead of Padmarajan’s another movie, Novemberinte Nashtam. Clara is not a shy village girl who would surrender herself in love before a man and then would spend her entire life in grief if she was cheated. Padmarajan’s Clara is not a typical woman character usually portrayed in Malayalam cinema (or Indian cinema). But very little has been written about it’s women characters – Radha (played by Parvathi) and Clara (played by Sumalatha) – but they are proof of Padmarajan’s craftsmanship. Thoovaanathumpikal (meaning Butterflies in the Spraying Rain) is a much talked about film of Padmarajan where the praises have gone to actor Mohan Lal for his portrayal of Jayakrishnan, a man with complex characteristics (and Mohan Lal has done his job perfectly well). And I think Clara, the prostitute from the movie Thoovaanathumpikal, stands out from the rest and is one of the most powerful women characters of Malayalam cinema to the date. However, there are a couple of movies in which he portrayed some of the most powerful women characters of Malayalam cinema. Female characters have important roles to play in his films but not at the cost of side-lining the male characters just like any other typical commercial movies of our times. Padmarajan is a director who has given some of the best on-screen characters of Malayalam cinema.
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