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For decades, cinema reinforced patriarchal structures, often framing the ideal woman through a lens of domestic sacrifice or submissiveness. However, the contemporary wave of filmmaking—often termed the "New Gen" cinema—has initiated a radical departure.

No discussion of Kerala culture is complete without its fraught relationship with food and caste. Films like Perumazhakkalam (2004) and Biriyani (2020) have used the very act of cooking and sharing a meal—particularly the Malabar Biriyani or the Christian Ishteri —as a tool to discuss religious harmony and prejudice. The legendary scene in Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016), where the protagonist runs across a village to get a packet of karimeen pollichathu (pearl spot fish) for his father, is less about the fish and more about filial piety and local pride.

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