: Created by amateur college students, it introduced elements of Italian neorealism to Indian cinema. 2. Traditional Art Forms and Visual Aesthetics
Kerala’s unique communist history and caste reform movements (by Sree Narayana Guru, Ayyankali) are recurring themes. Ee.Ma.Yau (2018) brutally deconstructs death rituals and caste hypocrisy in a Catholic-Malayali setting. Vidheyan (1994) portrays feudal oppression. Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (2017) critiques the police state and middle-class morality. No other Indian film industry engages with Left politics and caste so intimately. mallu girl mms new