Malayalam cinema has repeatedly challenged upper-caste dominance. Chemmeen (1965), based on a novel, depicted the tragic love of a low-caste fisherman. Perumazhakkalam (2004) addressed religious bigotry. More recently, The Great Indian Kitchen (2021) critiqued patriarchal, caste-based domestic labor, sparking state-wide debates on temple entry and kitchen hierarchies. Films often portray the Ezhava community’s upward mobility (through Sree Narayana Guru’s influence) and the lingering trauma of untouchability.
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Fast forward to the New Wave (circa 2010 onward), films like Kammattipaadam (2016) exposed the brutal underbelly of land mafia and Dalit displacement in the name of urbanization (specifically Kochi’s real estate boom). Director Rajeev Ravi used the language of a gangster epic to document how the Adivasi (tribal) and Dalit communities lost their ancestral lands. Similarly, Njan Steve Lopez (2014) and Aedan (2017) explored the insidious nature of upper-caste honor killings and religious extremism, holding a mirror to a progressive society's regressive ghosts. More recently, The Great Indian Kitchen (2021) critiqued