{"id":33633,"date":"2021-07-01T16:30:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/jul\/01\/malayalam-cinema-covid-bollywood"},"modified":"2021-07-01T16:30:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:30:57","slug":"why-malayalam-cinema-not-bollywood-is-indias-rapid-response-unit-for-covid-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33633","title":{"rendered":"Why Malayalam cinema, not Bollywood, is India\u2019s rapid-response unit for Covid films"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Mumbai noir to plantation Macbeth, Kerala\u2019s more dynamic and independent-driven industry is responding urgently to the pandemic<\/p>\n

The first occurrence of Covid-19 in India was officially recorded on 30 January last year in the city of Thrissur <\/a>in the southern state of Kerala. Since then, Kerala\u2019s capable handling of the pandemic has meant that it has been largely spared the brutal scenes and tragic images of the second wave of the pandemic elsewhere in India. Likewise, Kerala\u2019s Malayalam-language film industry<\/a> \u2013 right now the most dynamic of all India\u2019s multiple regional producers \u2013 has seen a talented pool of young, new-wave film-makers deal superbly with the virus.<\/p>\n

Where the Mumbai-based behemoth of Bollywood has barely chronicled this life-altering reality \u2013 the anthology Unpaused<\/a>, released on Amazon Prime Video, is almost its only offering \u2013 Malayalam cinema is grappling with Covid with diverse film-making forms, styles and themes.<\/p>\n

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From Mumbai noir to plantation Macbeth, Kerala\u2019s more dynamic and independent-driven industry is responding urgently to the pandemicThe first occurrence of Covid-19 in India was officially recorded on 30 January last year in the city of Thrissur in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,1066,71,69,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-coronavirus","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33634,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33633\/revisions\/33634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}