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: Filmmakers like Padmarajan and Bharathan successfully blended art and commerce, exploring complex human emotions and societal issues. New Generation Wave (2010–Present)

Films like Sudani from Nigeria (2018) used food as a bridge between cultures—the Malabari biriyani and pathiri become a metaphor for the embrace of an African footballer into a Muslim household. The late actor and director, Dileesh Pothan, made the act of eating so mundane and realistic in Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum that audiences felt they were watching a documentary. This culinary realism is a direct extension of Kerala’s culture of hospitality ("Athithi Devo Bhava" is practiced here with a vengeance) and its obsession with the freshest catch. When a hero sits down to eat, there are no song-and-dance breaks; there is only the quiet, serious business of tearing apart a crab or mopping up sambar with a spongy appam .

(1928) by , often called the father of Malayalam cinema.