Perhaps the biggest surprise for Malayalam cinema in 2023 was Jeo Baby’s ‘Kaathal: The Core’, featuring Mammootty as a gay man trapped in a heterosexual marriage, which garnered substantial success at the box office.
Malayalam film actor Darshana Rajendran on Paradise which won Best Film at the Busan film festival, working with Roshan Mathew, her breakout role and doing Hindi and Telugu films.