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.
How a girl on a wheelchair sees the ocean
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Siju Vijayan’s Malayalam film ‘Insha’ revolves around the life of a disabled girl
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Siju Vijayan’s Malayalam film ‘Insha’ revolves around the life of a disabled girl Insha dreams of the sea. She has only only seen the vast blue expanse on Ali’s canvases. Smitten by the white spray of the waves and the changing shades of the deep blue, she expresses her secret desire to see the ocean to her cousin and friend, Ali. Thirteen-year-old Insha, a wheel-chair user, is confined to her home and sees the world through Ali and his friends.