Friendship (Thai)

Well, I have no words for this film other than one of the most touching, sad but romantic and filled with friendship and all sort of adolescent mischief kind of film.

Well, you should be prepared to shed tears before you watch this movie, also you should be prepared to go back to your high school year's nostalgia. And remember all those times when you, or your friend had fallen in love for the first time... How it had all felt so new, and hence like a burning sensation like something dangerous is inside you...yet so sweet and lovable kind of feeling.
And friendship... Remember how all those time you hug out with your friends just fooling around.
And I think boys can better relate with the friendship in this film than girls. Boy would be like 'oh ya, we have done that...and been there'.

Story Synopsis : A group of young people are meeting after 10 years of their school, and their friendship is still intact. Only one of the girls from their friends group is not there. And 'Singha', starts to remember back to his school days after coming home. And the story unravels in a flash back.
When Shinga (young Singha is being played my favorite Mario Maurer) was in his final year at school, on the first day, two new kids transferred to his class. One was a boy, with a funny name of a stage actor, but prefers to be called Lam. The other was Mithuna, a beautiful girl. Shingha and his friends who are just like any other teenage boys and who like to hang out hand have fun and take a look at girls, and even do something if they get a chance, which they never does, and watch porn etc. But when Singha tries to speak with Mithuna, she doesn't answer him at all. In fact she doesn't even talk much... Shingha takes offence of this, and makes fun of her calling her a mute, and makes her life a hell all the time. Mithuna bears with it with anger, but never speaks. This irritates Singha more.
Meanwhile Lam and Singha and friend becomes friends, when Lam saves Singha from the bad boy of the school. They began to hang out together and do all sort of teen boy stuff...  
Lam tells Singha that he should try to understand people before judging them, and that he may never understand a person from a broken family, and he was implying to Mithuna...
Then Singha finds out that Mithuna's mother is deaf and dumb, and he feels extremely guilty and bad for calling her a mute all the time. He begins to apologize to her, she doesn't say anything then either. He begins to learn sign language for her, because she finds that more comfortable than talking, and is falling in love with her really fast....

The love of Singha and Mithuna is so cute and innocent and real, the kind of real that some teen of that age can have in any developing country can have.
Well, Thailand is not so far away from India, and the freedom in terms of relationship are kind of similar, at least at that age (well, India is stricter). So being an Indian I could relate so well with that relationship and all the friendship...

Loved this movie though. And I kind of starts to cry towards the end of the movie every time I see the film. It's cute, and lovable, yet a bit sad...

My ratings of this Movie : 9/10  

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