Honey Bee
Year: 2013
Runtime: 138 mins
Language: Malayalam
Director: Lal Jr.
This 2013 film follows two friends, Sebastian and Angel, as they unexpectedly find themselves in love. They impulsively run away together the night before the woman's wedding, causing conflict with her brothers. The story explores the couple's fight to navigate their relationship and the challenges they face as they seek a future together.
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Sebastian, Asif Ali, Abu, Sreenath Bhasi, Ambrose Perera, Balu Varghese, Fernando d’Silva (a.k.a. Ferno), Baburaj, Angel, Bhavana, and Sara, Archana Kavi, are close friends in Fort Kochi, a coastal town where life blends warmth, humor, and a touch of local color.
Angel’s family brings in a proposal from the city, SI George, Vijay Babu, and the tension around an arranged match threads through the lives of the friends. Angel asks Sebastian if he has feelings for her, to which he says he does not, before she reveals that she once had feelings for him. On the night before her wedding, a drunk Sebastian breaks into Angel’s house with his friends and proposes his love, and they elope with their help. Ambrose, drunk and reckless, leaves a letter informing the Punyalanmar that they helped elope.
The next day, Sebastian wakes up beside Angel, unable to recall the previous night’s events; the Punyalanmar set out to find them, burning Sebastian’s house and Ferno’s house in the process. Sebastian and Angel decide to escape through the harbor. Abu, Ambrose, and Ferno plan to confront and surrender to buy them time to slip away. Abu is captured, but Ferno and Ambrose threaten to kill their wives, prompting Ferno to call Sebastian from a boat to say they will sacrifice themselves. Ferno is then stabbed by Michael’s goon.
Seeing Angel’s brothers closing in, the lovers decide to end their pursuit with suicide, and they share a passionate kiss. A flashback reveals that Angel’s brothers did not kill Sebastian’s friends; those friends were also on the boat with Angel’s brothers. Yet, unaware of this, Sebastian and Angel leap into the sea, and Sebastian’s friends dive in to save them. The story resolves with a hopeful, communal ending: all gather to pray at Punyalanmar’s father’s tomb, and then move toward Sebastian’s and Angel’s wedding.
Sebastian, [Asif Ali], Abu, [Sreenath Bhasi], Ambrose Perera, [Balu Varghese], Fernando d’Silva (Ferno), [Baburaj], Angel, [Bhavana], and Sara, [Archana Kavi], drive the emotional arc of this tale, weaving friendship, loyalty, love, and the consequences of greed into a richly textured Fort Kochi tapestry. The film also features a wide cast fulfilling supporting roles that deepen the community dynamic and propel the narrative toward its ultimately celebratory conclusion.
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