While winning awards at international festivals (IFFI, Cannes, Venice), Malayalam cinema remains fiercely local. It rarely panders to pan-Indian formulas. Instead, it thrives on small-town stories, dark humor, and moral ambiguity—qualities that resonate universally because they are so specifically Keralite.
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