Notebook

Notebook is a 2006 Indian coming-of-age drama film directed by Rosshan Andrrews and written by Bobby-Sanjay. It is about three students at a boarding school and how they face up to challenges in their lives. The film stars Maria Roy, Roma Asrani, and Parvathy Thiruvothu, while Skanda Ashok and Suresh Gopi play supporting roles. The film dealt with the subject of teenage pregnancy. The songs were composed by Mejo Joseph, while Gopi Sundar handled the score. Cinematography was handled by R. Diwakaran and editing by Ranjan Abraham The film was released on 15 December 2006. It received positive reviews and was also a commercial success at the box office. The film won the Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Film and Filmfare Award for Best Film – Malayalam. Plot The story begins with a New Year's Eve celebration at Lord's Academy in Ooty while three girls - Saira Elizabeth, Pooja Krishna, and Sridevi Swaminathan - plant a sapling to symbolize their friendship even after they graduate from the school. Three years later, the trio is in 11th grade, and the sapling they planted has grown into a tree Venus (named after the goddess of love). The girls come from different family backgrounds — Saira from a broken home, with separated parents yet maintaining a bold character; Sridevi, a Brahmin girl who is very much kind and sensitive in nature from a happy, close-knit family, with her parents doting on her; and Pooja, the ambitious one who is the school-head girl, and is a single parented child staying with her mother in Ooty. Sridevi falls in love with a schoolmate, Sooraj Menon. Though hesitant at first, Saira and Pooja approve their relationship after being convinced of Sooraj's sincerity.