Saw this amazing malayalam movie "Artist", a screenplay adaptation of the english novel 'Dreams in Prussian Blue' by author Paritosh Uttam. The artist portrayed by Faahad Faasil,, his brilliance increasing with every movie. Depicts the story of this painter and this girl whom he meets in art college, they fall in love and the woman leaves everything behind to follow him and his dreams. He paints, she works odd and even jobs so she can afford his canvases, his brushes and his professional quality paints. Puts up with all his eccentricities, his mood swings and the love strings them along till a tragedy befalls the painter. She arranges a meeting with an art gallery owner and forces him to come within five minutes so he takes a part time job and still continue his painting as she's not able to do it alone. As fate may have it, on the way he meets with an accident which spares him but takes away the one thing most precious to him, his eyes without which he'd much rather be dead as he's an artist and an obsessed one at that. She gives up her BPO job to take care of him and is soon forced to flip burgers and pack fries at a local eatery to make ends meet. Meanwhile the artist is hell bent on painting and soon starts again using spatial guessing and is again after the poor girl to provide him with paints brushes, the infrastructure. A mutual college friend, a guy, gets increasingly friendly during this time and helps her out during this tough time. Meanwhile the artist's demand for paints and accessories is ever growing and she finds it very difficult to keep up with the demands of his expensive hobby. The freind suggests that he pass on the dozens of bottles of Prussian Blue to her boyfriend that hes been trying to get rid of from a previous art event. After all, what would a blind guy know... A combination of her economic situation and a love borne out of compassion for her partner, she agrees to this deception. Meanwhile, the painter boyfriend carries on with his imaginative masterpieces blissfully unaware that all his paintings are all hues of the Prussian blue. The friend who had his own ulterior motives for helping out the poor girl starts to blackmail her to sleep with him under threat of revealing the truth to her boyfriend. She somehow manages to keep him at bay. As luck might have it, the blind artist regains his sight and becomes a celebrity ironically because of his paintings in the Prussian Blue hues.However, the ungrateful bugger preaches on to the media about how his love deceived him and how he fought life and came out successful against all odds. The woman is so disgusted, irate and disillusioned by the entire saga, she finally walks out as enlightenment strikes her about the selfishness and of the ingrate male species. A sad beautifully told movie, that somehow still leaves you with some hope as the woman walks out of the relationship with her head held high and her pride intact.
