Film critic and writer Anupama Chopra is expanding her horizons in cinematic terms. “I have started watching a lot more films especially from the Malayalam and Tamil industries,” she says. in his book, a place in my heart, she writes about movies like Kumbalangi Nights (2019) and Angamaly Diary (2017).
“What I love about new age Malayalam cinema is that it is a story without color. I think some of the most exciting work in India is being done there right now. There is no dress; The people in these movies look and behave like real people. But the big theatrical is theft. Storytelling captures you without the temptation of glamor or fantasy. And they have been shot so beautifully! I could taste all that food Angamaly Diary — and I’m a vegetarian, so I won’t even eat much of it!”
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