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Post-independence, films like Neelakuyil (1954, “The Blue Cuckoo”) – the first realistic Malayalam film – won national awards. Directors like ( Chemmeen , 1965) used the sea and folk songs to tell a tragedy of caste and love. Chemmeen became India’s first film to win the President’s Gold Medal for Best Feature Film.

Unlike the larger-than-life action heroes of the North, the archetypal hero of Malayalam cinema is often the "everyman"—a flawed, intelligent, often slightly cynical middle-class Malayali. Think of ’s character in Kireedam (1989), a promising police officer’s son who is tragically forced into a life of crime by circumstance and ego. Or Fahadh Faasil , the current torchbearer of this legacy, whose characters in Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016) or Joji (2021) are terrifyingly ordinary in their ambitions and failures. mallu aunty in saree mmswmv portable