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Today, Malayalam cinema faces a new tension. With OTT platforms, its films reach a global Malayali diaspora and international audiences. Some directors are chasing "universal" themes, diluting the specific. Others, like Lijo Jose Pellissery ( Ee.Ma.Yau ), double down on the local—a story about a poor Christian man’s desperate attempt to give his father a proper funeral becomes a surreal, ritualistic epic.

: Elements of traditional art forms like Kathakali, Theyyam, and Pooram festivals are frequently woven into film plots to heighten emotional and visual drama.