Hello Shaha

A few years back, I accompanied our Lifestyle write Aisha on an assignment; to go to a movie premiere of a short film called Falhu by an aspiring filmmaker.  It was about two boys in an island, about growing pains, as one migrates to Male' leaving the other behind; written and directed by Movanu Shafeeq. It was perhaps one of the first times I saw something resembling a normal coming to age scene, away from the dramatic movies we used to watch in our childhoods. Years pass by, and I still remember the simplicity of it so when I heard about Dhoadhi, I rallied all my friends together to go watch it.  photo: olympus cinema If the trailer was anything to go by, it felt stronger than the innocence of young boys in Falhu, this time about three teenagers figuring out this thing called life in the midst of the chaos of being Maldivian.  Mal the lead, is a young aspiring poet, writing poetry in Dhivehi, something I really loved. Rasied by a single mother in perhaps the nicest lit...