Malayalam short film ‘New Normal’ attempts to normalise the conversation around homosexuality

The overwhelming wave of optimistic suggestions for Malayalam brief movie New Regular has come as a shock for its author/director Monisha Mohan Menon and producer Vimal PK. The brief movie is a love story of two girls and the try has been to begin a dialog and normalise homosexuality. It has already hit multiple million views since its launch three weeks in the past on YouTube. 

“As I have no idea a lot about same-sex relationships, I spoke to people who find themselves in them. What I realized is that love has no sexuality, love is love,” Monisha says. The problem for the workforce was normalising with out sensationalising. 

Monisha Mohan Menon  
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The narrative follows the trajectory of the connection – the primary flush of affection, fights, jealousy and falling out of affection. “The price range might not be big however we didn’t compromise on the making,” says Monisha, an engineer who stop her IT job to hitch the movie business. She was the lead researcher on Kayamkulam Kochunni and was a researcher and assistant director on Prathi Poovankozhi and One, and is now engaged on the script for her first function movie. 

“Throughout our dialogue, we determined that we wished a love story, one thing like 500 Days of Summer time or OK Kanmani, however with two girls as the principle characters. There may be a number of judgement with regards to homosexuality and the sentiments of guilt and wrongdoing that accompanies it. With this movie, we’re asking audiences to see it because the ‘new regular’,” says Vimal, who can be a companion at Cafe Viibee, Kakkanad. Monisha is a part of the neighborhood of budding movie business aspirants that Viibee seeks to encourage 

“All love tales, no matter sexuality, are the identical as are all of the phases of a relationship. I don’t perceive why, normally, in mainstream Malayalam cinema homosexuality is portrayed as one thing darkish and intimacy will not be normalised. I wished to indicate the connection otherwise – as comfortable and shiny as gay love is also,” provides Monisha.   

The messages she has been getting from younger individuals struggling to return to phrases with their sexuality and are available out to their households have been a supply of encouragement for her. “I get a number of messages, particularly from ladies, who inform me that because of the movie they will provoke a dialog with their households. That they bought braveness from it,” she says.

“On the finish of the day, the movie is about acceptance!” says Vimal.