The two defining pillars of this era are Lijo Jose Pellissery and the actor Fahadh Faasil.
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In most of the world, cinema is an escape from culture. In Kerala, cinema is a prolonged, uncomfortable, urgent conversation about culture. A Malayali does not go to a theatre to forget their problems; they go to see their problems dissected on screen with a level of technical finesse rarely found in world cinema. The two defining pillars of this era are