Sreesanth K. examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the single-screen theatres in Kerala, already struggling to survive technological[…]
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Tag: cinema
മാനസികാരോഗ്യവും സമീപകാല മലയാള സിനിമയും: ചില സംവാദങ്ങൾ
പുരുഷസ്വത്വവും , മാനസികാരോഗ്യവും, സാമൂഹിക വ്യവസ്ഥയും തമ്മിലുള്ള സൂക്ഷ്മബന്ധത്തെ സമീപകാലത്തു പുറത്തുവന്ന ‘ട്രാൻസ്’ (2020), ‘കുമ്പളങ്ങി നൈറ്റ്സ് (2019) എന്നീ സിനിമകൾ അടിസ്ഥാനമാക്കി വിശകലനം ചെയ്യുകയാണ് ആനന്ദും[…]
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Companions and Co-actors: The Role of the Non-human in Malayalam Cinema
Lakshmi Pradeep analyses the human-non-human relationships in the 2017 film, Parava, to talk about an emerging genre of Malayalam cinema:[…]
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How Christian Familism Prevails: Reflections on ‘Kettiyolaanu Ente Malakha’
Nidhin Donald explores the themes of Christian familism and individual agency, secular institutions, and reason in the 2019 film Kettiyolaanu Ente Malakha
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An Affective Cinema? Refiguring P. K. Rosy in the Contemporary Archive
Manju Edachira writes about the re-emergence of P.K. Rosy–Kerala’s first heroine–in the modern public sphere using two theoretical interventions: “cinema[…]
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Is ‘Another Family’ Possible? Why Kumbalangi Nights Breaks New Grounds in Malayalam Cinema
Kumbalangi nights garnered critical claim and praise for its perceptive portrayal of the lives of four half brothers. Lipin Ram delves deeply into the question of family at the centre of the movie.
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Malayalam Cinema’s Other: Soft-porn and the Stardom of Shakeela
What gave rise to the ‘Shakeela wave’ and the subsequent national appeal of the Malayalam soft-porn genre? Darshana Sreedhar Mini makes a case for foregrounding this ‘parallel history’ of Malayalam cinema.
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