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| film 101 Chodyangal |
Except a handful
of them, films about children somehow don’t seem to get the kind of attention they deserve in Malayalam, be it in terms of production or reception. Maybe we
grownups don’t care enough to look at things through a child’s perspective
anymore, conveniently forgetting how we were all there once. Or maybe, we’ve always
been looking at it the wrong way. However the results of some of the few
attempts in Malayalam Cinema at capturing the innocence and unpredictability of
childhood cannot be ignored, especially some recent ones that seem especially
promising. Following is a list of such Malayalam films featuring kids as
central characters, although not always narrated through their perspective.
