Film / culture

Kerala miracle: Film by daily wage rubber plantation worker gets top state awardShareef Easa’s debut feature ‘Kanthan The Lover of Colour’ been awarded the top prize by the Kerala State Film Awards.

Priya Varrier’s viral song ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’ gets Kerala’s Muslim folk poetry wider attentionThe song featuring a winking Priya Varrier is a Mapila Pattu, a genre of poetry traditionally associated with the Muslims of North Kerala.

A Facebook group is preserving old Soviet books that generations of Kerala’s children grew up onAa Pazhaya Russian Pusthakangal is digitising the Malayalam translations of works that disappeared from bookstores after the fall of the Soviet Union.

The new hero in Malayalam cinema is the card-carrying communistAfter the Communist-themed ‘Oru Mexican Aparatha’ and ‘Sakhavu’, Mollywood waits for ‘Comrade in America’.

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