The screen went white. Then black.
The new generation of directors is obsessed with . We are seeing a rise in the "Malayalam horror" (less jump-scare, more psychological dread rooted in folklore like Bhoothakalam ) and "Malayalam noir" (rain-drenched, morally gray stories like Joseph ). The screen went white
Directors like Adoor Gopalakrishnan and G. Aravindan, both graduates of the Pune Film Institute (FTII), rejected the formulaic song-and-dance routines of mainstream Indian cinema. They looked at the crumbling feudal estates, the rise of the Naxalite movement, and the existential angst of the middle class. Their films—such as Elippathayam (The Rat Trap, 1981) and Thampu (The Circus Tent, 1978)—were anthropological studies. the rise of the Naxalite movement