Boy Friend

Boyfriend starts with the pr-marital pregnancy of its heroine - Vidhubala whose beau - Vincent seems to have vanished in the thin air. Her parents seek the help of a benevolent doctor (K.P Ummar) who is a friend of her father. The doctor clandestinely arranges Vidhubala's confinement in his supervision but tells her and her parents that she has given birth to a dead child. Since himself is absolutely lonely in his life, he becomes the foster-father of the boy-child thus born. However he is a heart-patient and dies after some time handing over the child to his dentist friend - Sudheer and his wife Mallika who are already having three children of their own. To have better career prospects, Sudheer alongwith his family containing this kid also, shifts from Thiruvananthapuram to Kochi (then Cochin).

On the other hand, the child's unmarried mother - Vidhubala gets married to Sukumaran against her will and her mother does not allow her to disclose this fact to her husband that she has undergone pregnancy and childbirth in the pr-marital part of her life. Sukumaran loves his wife very much but Mallika remains concerned from his side because he is strictly against pr-marital sex. Sudheer and his family become their neighbours after shifting to Kochi. Very shortly, an affectionate relationship is established between Vidhubala and the little child - Master Sadhashivan. Sudheer's wife - Mallika ill-treats the little child (because he is not her own child and she has no affection for him) and his status is that of a servant only in Sudheer's house. This fact pains Vidhubala very much who has not become mother in her married life. One day, she comes to know of the fact that this child is her own offspring only and then the heart of the mother wails at the plight of her kid but she is not able to reveal this truth to anyone which suffocates her like anything.

On another track, Vincent who could not return to Vidhubala because of meeting with a lethal accident, starts searching for her after recovering from his injuries. He is a true lover and quite restless to locate his sweetheart but after marrying Vidhubala to Sukumaran, her parents have left their original place and now their whereabouts are not known to anyone. Sukumaran is the old college-mate of Vincent. Being a publisher, when he visits Thiruvananthapuram due to some business, he happens to come across Vincent and seeing him in a miserable condition, brings him to his house at Kochi. Now Vincent and Vidhubala are startled to see each other in the changed scenario and they do their best to hide their earlier relationship from Sukumaran. Sukumaran gives Vincent a responsible position in his publication house but does not allow him to live separately and makes him live in his house only. In the office of Sukumaran, a lady employee - Reena M John starts liking Vincent but the trouble is that Vincent is still nurturing fatal attraction for his old flame Vidhubala. He also comes to know of the little kid who is so dear to Vidhubala but Vidhubala does not tell him that he only is the kid's father and she only is the kid's mother. Due to Vincent's still pursuing Vidhubala despite her repulsion for him and her warning to him to stay away from her, the seed of suspicion is sown in Sukumaran's heart regarding the relationship of his friend - Vincent and his wife - Vidhubala. Besides, due to the regular protest of Sudheer and Mallika regarding the little kid's visiting their home and spending hours with Vidhubala, Sukumaran prohibits Vidhubala from calling the kid to their home and also the kid to come to his place. Now it's a painful situation for the mother who is starving to pour her love on her child as well as the child who is starving to get love and affection in his life. Vincent keeps on making advances towards Vidhubala under the desperate hope of regaining her love. The tension thickens and thickens among these four principal characters of the story till one day, Sukumaran comes to know the truth pertaining to the other three. What happens then leads the story to its logical conclusion.

Despite made in the time of the prevalence of the traditional patriarchal social set-up as well as mindset of the people which used to impose all kinds of moral restrictions on the females only and not on the males, the movie boldly asserts through the character of its heroine that in the phenomena of pr-marital sex, the female only cannot be blamed because the male has been an equal partner in the thing happened. Vidhubala boldly discusses this issue with her husband who condemns the women having pr-marital sex and pregnancy and puts the side of the women with courage and conviction. Thus this movie can be considered as ahead of its time.

Admirable performances have further elevated the already good story. All the principal actors - Sukumaran, Supriya Vidhubala, Vincent and Master Sadhashivan have lighted up the screen by their natural acts.

G.Devarajan have composed very good music for this movie with the touching lyrics being authored by Shreekumaaran Thambi. The best and the most popular song of this album is P.Madhuri's Anuraagathin. The other songs are also quite good in terms of lyrics and composition.

Boyfriend is an engrossing sentimental drama based on triangular relationship of a mother, a kid and the mother's husband not being the kid's father on one hand and a wife, a husband and the wife's ex- beau on the other. There is no boredom in the movie and no viewer is likely to regret after watching it.