Cinema has been a primary medium for exploring Kerala's complex socio-political landscape.
Directors like Lijo Jose Pellissery, Dileesh Pothan, and Mahesh Narayanan have abandoned formula. Consider Lijo’s Ee.Ma.Yau (2018)—a film about a poor fisherman trying to give his father a decent Christian burial. The entire film is a ritual. We watch the buying of a coffin, the arrival of the priest, the fight over the cemetery fee. It is simultaneously a slapstick comedy, a tragedy, and a theological treatise on death in a Catholic-majority coastal village. Cinema has been a primary medium for exploring
As the evening wore on, Sajini suggested they move to the bedroom to continue their conversation, as it was a more comfortable space. Swamiyar agreed, and they sat on the bed, talking and laughing together. The entire film is a ritual