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“For the past five years there has been a trend in Malayalam cinema of focusing on small, localised worlds, spaces, communities and situations,” he says. Acclaimed author NS Madhavan suggests that lockdown cinema is part of a thematic continuum. It even had a fictional version of Kerala’s former health minister, KK Shailaja, lauded internationally for her efficient and empathetic tackling of both that outbreak and Covid. Back in 2019, filmmaker-actor Aashiq Abu made an edge-of-the-seat medical thriller called Virus, about the Nipah virus outbreak of 2018. Paul also says that Malayalam cinema has always been “reactive”, quick in responding to changing social, political and economic realities. “The film-makers are quick in thinking up ideas, finding producers and moving fast on projects,” says Bina Paul, artistic director of the International film festival of Kerala. What has helped Malayalam cinema take on the pandemic so effectively?Despite its flourishing commercial core, the Malayalam film industry is a relatively small-scale enterprise, led by individual producers and not entrenched in big studio operations like its Hindi or Tamil counterparts. Independent writer-director Don Palathara puts relationships under the microscope in Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam (Joyful Mystery), about a young couple facing an unwanted pregnancy, while his Everything Is Cinema is about a film-maker confined in a rented flat in an alien city with his actor wife, who decides to spend the time by making a film on their marriage from his personal perspective. Photograph: -įirst-time director Sanu John Varghese’s Aarkkariyam (Who Knows?), which dropped on Amazon Prime Video recently, is about a young couple who shift temporarily from their Mumbai apartment, as the pandemic breaks, to a sprawling estate in Kerala where a disquieting secret and violent crime from the past is dredged up.ĭileesh Pothan’s adaptation of Macbeth, Joji, with Malayalam superstar Fahadh Faasil in the title role, is set during the pandemic among a dysfunctional, toxic, patriarchal family of plantation owners. Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam –Joyful Mystery.