It began on a Rainy day when her car broke down “In the mirror before me I saw his brown eyes, his wide smile. We wre childhd frnds but that day something changed between us.”
That Story rooted in Kerala, with a river & the rain in the back.
Moideen-Kanchana. 🌹🌸🌹1/16
Mukkom, KERALA.
Kottangal Kanchanamala Daughter of Achuthan, from a privileged Hindu family.
BP Moideen son of Unnimoyi, a rich Muslim in the region.
Though conservative, in young secular India, both families had great friends.
The river Iruvazhinji & rain. 2/16
They were childhood friends in the same school & grew up playing and studying 2gether.
1950s India
She was in class IX Moideen 3yrs older than her.
"Once he gave me a collection of poems by a Malayalam romantic poet, I found sentences wid love & romance were underlined."🌹 3/16
Kanchana asked Moideen why he underlined those lines. He smiled & said nothing.
"But soon I started getting poetic love letters along with the books. I fell in love with him."
1957 Kanchana's mother found a love letter by Moideen & life sentences for both of them began.🌺 4/16
Kanchana was held under house arrest by her parents stopping her education.
Moideen confessed that he was in love with Kanchana & his father pointed his gun at him; he turned around & walked away from home.
They didn't meet for the next 10 yrs. How does it sound frndz?🌷🌸5/16
There is a quote "I could make love with you until the moon decides to never glow again."
They didn't meet even once for the next 10yrs, only through letters written in code words.
On 11/7/1964, Moideen's father stabbed him wid a knife 22 times, he survived. 🌺 6/16
Every yr on that day, Kanchana & Moideen would write to each other: “We will never be apart. I will not live with any1 else.”
They met 23/11/67. “I remember that day so well. We met at the ferry. As I was leaving, I saw Moideen take a fistful of earth."
River Iruvazhinji.🍀7/16
"What was that?” Kanchana asked him in a letter, “What were you taking from the ground?”
Moideen wrote back “Just the earth you walked on”.
Eternal love is not a Myth frndz. 🌹
Apart from being a short story writer, he was a footballer, swimmer, activist & painter.🌼8/16
For next 15 yrs they met occasionally, Religion kept them apart.
If she had married Moideen, it would hv been hard for her 5 sisters to find a match. She waited till all her sisters got married even as she & Moideen grew older. They thought of running away several times.🌼 9/16
4 times they thought of eloping. But it was not destined to happen.
Every time events turned against them. Once her brother died, next her father had a heart attack, 3rd time her pregnant sister-in-law pleaded her & then Moideen’s father passd away.
Kanchana turned 41.🌻10/16
It became pointless keeping them separated.
On 11/7/1982 she wrote a letter to Moideen.15/7/82 she took that letter to be posted. That evening, as she was on her way home on a bus, she heard Moideen had gone missing in the Iruvazhinchi River.🍀
It was raining heavily.🌸11/16
That rain-drenched evening a canoe accident in which the craft overturned in the river. A person who had saved several passengers drowned in the whirls of the river. It took 3 days to fish out body & identify it as the remains of Moideen.
No their love didn't fail frndz.🌻12/16
Just before his death, Moideen had set up a village centre to empower destitute women.
Moideen published Sports Herald a Malayalam magazine.
Kanchana didnt get to see his body, there was no one to accompany her to his house & the decomposed body was buried in a hurry.🌺🌸13/16
Following his death, Kanchana tried to end her life.
However, she started living again.
Moideen’s mother Fathima asked her to come & live in his home. “She told me: ‘U can’t die. We hv many things to do. We hv to continue the work Moideen began.’
Work for the society.🌺 14/16
Kanchana now runs institution & library of 10000 books. BP Moideen Seva Mandir a charitable org homelss shelter, a family counselling centre & a blood donors network.A centre that provides children wid swimming classes for free.
Is this not a real Kerala Story frndz? 🌺🌷15/16
Based on their love movie "Ennu Ninte Moideen" 2015.
Society which hails their Love now, made them suffer in pain. It was the 1950s,now 2023.
Ending with a song. Dont understand a single word yet listening last 10-11 yrs. Found Love in it which makes us human.
LOVE.🌹🌺16/16
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