To understand the cinema, you must understand the culture. Kerala is an anomaly in India: it has a 94% literacy rate, a matrilineal history in many communities, a communist government that has been democratically re-elected for decades, and a unique syncretic culture influenced by Arab trade, Portuguese colonialism, and Sanskrit scholarship.
The two "M's"—superstars in their 70s—have abandoned star vehicles for risky art. Mammootty played a decaying, lecherous feudal lord in Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam and a singing, lonely gangster in Rorschach . Mohanlal, famous for his naturalistic acting, took a meta-turn in Drishyam 2 , playing a criminal mastermind who is simultaneously a family man. They are proof that stars age better when they embrace vulnerability. desi indian mallu aunty cheating with young bf full