A free-wheeling script
“Be careful. Don’t go out,” his father’s words still ring in Siju Vijayan’s ears. It was 1997 and Siju had just joined Maharaja’s College for a B.Sc. degree in Botany.
Siju’s father had a reason for advising his son to be cautious. Siju has been suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disorder that causes weakening of muscles, and could fall down anytime while walking. Still, Siju paid little heed to his father’s words. There was something special about “going to cinema” and he could hardly resist it. He went out for a movie the first day he joined the hostel, he says.