Mallika Sukumaran recently completed half a century in the industry and while she may be known today more prominently as the mother of actors Indrajit.
Not unlike in real life, mothers in cinema had to either don the cape of an angel or prepare themselves to be demonised, while the wives, daughters, and sisters had to live within the confines of one-dimensional images.
Mammootty has a very close friendship with Mukesh. Now an old interview video of both of them is going viral on social media. Mammootty candidly discusses his close friendship with Mukesh in it. Mukesh remembers Mammootty as a nervous and emotional person who burst into tears for trivial matter. It is about an accident that happened to Mammootty during the shooting of the movie Balloon.
The Malayali subconscious has always treated Kerala as one large extended neighbourhood. The film industry, too, was treated that way. At least till the Bhavana episode erupted in our faces.