The Kerala script: What is behind the resurgence of Malayalam cinema?

Few would have imagined the blockbuster year for Malayalam cinema that 2024 is turning out to be

At 72, Mammootty is in no mood to slow down. The Malayalam cinema superstar is displaying a voracious appetite for diverse roles. In the past two years, he has played a hardened cop in Kannur Squad, a homosexual in Kaathal–The Core, an incarnation of the Devil in Bramayugam, and in Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam he is an irritable middle-aged Malayali who wakes up from an afternoon slumber believing he is a Tamilian who disappeared from his village years ago.

“When you have someone like Mammootty doing diverse roles, it tends to rub off on others. Today, not just actors,