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Changing before their very eyes: Urban Expansion and Dispossession in Kammattipadam

30th June 2021 Issue 34

Yadu and Sujeesh analyse how the visual world crafted by the 2016 movie Kammattipadam provides minute insight into the class[…]

Between Fact and Fiction: Couple-photographs in Malayalam Cinema

30th April 2021 Issue 32

S. Harikrishnan writes about how Malayalam cinema uses couple-and-wedding photographs as a useful plot device—to guide narrative, enhance contrast and add depth to characters.

Ala Podcast: മൃദുലാദേവി: ജാതീയത, സിനിമ, രാഷ്ട്രീയം

31st March 2021 Issue 31

ഈ വർഷത്തെ ‘ദി ഗ്രേറ്റ് ഇന്ത്യൻ കിച്ചണി’നായി പാളുവാ ഭാഷയിൽ മനോഹരമായ ഗാനങ്ങൾ രചിക്കുകയും, കഴിഞ്ഞ ആറ് വർഷമായി ദലിത്-അംബേദ്കറൈറ്റ് ഫെമിനിസ്റ്റ്, എഴുത്തുകാരി, ആക്ടിവിസ്റ്റ്, ചിന്തക എന്നീ[…]

The Great Indian Kitchen: A Narrative of Upper-Caste Women’s Victimhood and Effortless Solidarities

31st March 2021 Issue 31

In her critique of ‘The Great Indian Kitchen,’ Shruti Herbert questions the film’s attempt to frame upper caste women’s interests as all women’s interests.

Miasmic Screens: Contagion and Control in Early 20th Century Cinema Halls

31st January 2021 Issue 29

As cinema halls in Kerala emerge as sites of pandemic control, Bindu Menon explores a longer history of how moralized notions of public health and contagion played out in Kerala’s cinema halls, and through film as medium.

‘Let us tie a “legal” knot’: Marriage, Family, and Transgender Identity in Malayalam Films

30th November 2020 Issue 27

Anu Kuriakose critically looks at the traditional concepts of ‘marriage’ and ‘family,’ the recent marriages of transgender people in the[…]

Last Nail in the Coffin: Single-Screen Cinemas of Kerala and the COVID-19 Pandemic

30th November 2020 Issue 27

Sreesanth K. examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the single-screen theatres in Kerala, already struggling to survive technological[…]

Image of Saji from the film when he calls to his brother to take him to the doctor. Text reads "Don't hesitate to call, Saji" in Malayalam, and the helpline number for mental health

മാനസികാരോഗ്യവും സമീപകാല മലയാള സിനിമയും: ചില സംവാദങ്ങൾ

30th September 2020 Issue 25

പുരുഷസ്വത്വവും , മാനസികാരോഗ്യവും, സാമൂഹിക വ്യവസ്ഥയും തമ്മിലുള്ള സൂക്ഷ്മബന്ധത്തെ സമീപകാലത്തു പുറത്തുവന്ന ‘ട്രാൻസ്’ (2020), ‘കുമ്പളങ്ങി നൈറ്റ്സ് (2019) എന്നീ സിനിമകൾ അടിസ്ഥാനമാക്കി വിശകലനം ചെയ്യുകയാണ് ആനന്ദും[…]

Companions and Co-actors: The Role of the Non-human in Malayalam Cinema

31st May 2020 Issue 21

Lakshmi Pradeep analyses the human-non-human relationships in the 2017 film, Parava, to talk about an emerging genre of Malayalam cinema:[…]

How Christian Familism Prevails: Reflections on ‘Kettiyolaanu Ente Malakha’

31st March 2020 Issue 19

Nidhin Donald explores the themes of Christian familism and individual agency, secular institutions, and reason in the 2019 film Kettiyolaanu Ente Malakha