A movie review

I was in Chennai last week for a day on some work. I had some time to kill in the morning and going out to explore was not something I really wanted to do (it was so hot and humid). So I was switching channels on TV and came across a Kannada movie channel (really surprising, I remember last time I was in Chennai, the hotels only had Tamil channels, a few English news channels and just one or two Hindi channels). And the movie ‘Manasasarovara’ was just starting. I had seen this 80’s movie a few years back. It had some melodious music. Not an extraordinary story, but a story told with just the right amounts of everything in it! The direction by Puttanna Kanagal was of course the clincher.

(This has spoilers)
The story is about a middle aged doctor (psychiatrist). He’s married, but his wife is not very happy with him ‘coz he doesn’t fit into her image of the ideal husband (he’s not very good looking, he’s an idealist, a poet/writer, an introvert basically). So she flirts around with some of his friends and finally goes beyond just flirting with one of them (rich, smart, loves to go out and party kinda person). This prompts him to leave her and go to his estate in a village.