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| film Elippathayam |
Even after the formula
movies of the 1950s gave way to adaptations of popular literary works in the
60s, the look, feel and the general choice of story premise in Malayalam cinema
was still badly in need of a revolution, and, thanks to everything influential
about the Italian Neorealism, an uprising happened very soon. As an upshot of
the 50s’ Parallel cinema movement by movie giants of the likes of Satyajit Ray
and Mrinal Sen that was greatly influenced by the Italian Neorealism, Malayalam
cinema also underwent a radical makeover, and a new stream of films came into
being right from the beginning of the 1970s lead by Adoor Gopalakrishnan,
G.Aravaindan, John Abraham and the like. These films were characterized by
serious subject matter that took into consideration the sociopolitical
situations prevalent at the time, and their realistic depictions strictly
devoid of the song and dance routine. The following list sticks to the 1970s
and 80s that marked the boom of the parallel cinema, which gradually reduced in
number and gave way to their much more canonical middle-stream counterparts.
