When u talk of Malayalam cinema the Hindi audience needs to realise that some of their most celebrated movies were actually Malayalam original movies..priyadarsan came about and took the stories to a different level in a different language which was nice tbh..when I hear about the latest buzz on Hera pheri 3..i remember our own original Ramjirao speaking..which was an actual gem of a movie..

I am a huge fan of Malyalam movies. It reflects the real stories, the way Bengali movies were in the 70s and 80s. Plus there are great performers and has a different kind of story telling

I think also one of the reasons why we don’t associate Mass Commercial cinema so much with Malayalam movies is because the audience are very questioning in the sense that, if you stitch together a Mass movie with actions that defy our understanding of what is technically physically possible, without being able to convince the audience extremely well that in fact he/she has some super powers, we’ll easily cringe or laugh it off. I mean, I think the Malayali audience can accept Mass more when it is done in other industries by other actors, but when our own actors do that, we can be very sceptical. I think we are quite used to the format of cinema being as closer to real life as possible that when we see something that strays so further away from reality, it puts us off easily. I think it is also one of the reasons why our movies were not quite appealing to us in the early 2000s, when we moved away from the real life narrative formats and tried to follow what the other south industries were doing. Action or commercial or anything, but don’t question the audience’s intelligence!

Malayali audiences have no issues with mass movies, most of the biggest hits came from malayalam industry are mass movies.... We don't like over mass scenes which we feel funny like the villain fly over a long distance with a small touch from the hero, or a car flies when the hero kicks it... All movies are setting in it's own logical world... If a superhero does like this, then that movie is within it's logical world, if hero is a normal human being, it feels like a cringest scene... The movie needs a proper explanation and a make belief to the scene........ In KGF, all what is showing as mass scenes are feels like believable because of its making... That's called make belief in movies..... Thus KGF is highly appreciated by the malayali audiences, if it was in other so called mass masala illogical genre, then it won't get this welcoming in Kerala........ So if a mass movie like KGF is made from malayalam, then definately it will became a huge success here for sure...... We have no problem with mass movies, only we don't like some over action movies, that's all👍🏻

I feel it is because majority of the heroes - Jayan, Madhu, Mammooty, Mohanlal, Shobhana, Urvashi, Murali, Joju George many more - they came in with almost nothing, risking many things. They were true to their heart - and that reflected in screen. They liked acting so they came, not because of the money or power. Not just heroes, many other actors as well. This mindset along with luck and similarly passionate script writers and directors combined helped Malayalam movies become great. I think it was just a lucky time for all of us.

Strength of the malayalam cinema is its literature. Story writers getting equal importance here. Stories are so deep rooted to our culture. Writers like MT, Lohithadas, Padmarajan, their stories were the back bone of malayalam industry. And I think thats legacy is whats that makes malayalam cinema different from other industry.

"My dear Kuttichathan" is the first pan indian movie and its from malayalam film industry

'malayalam movie industry' has till date created an environment where actors could act naturally.

i completed it on spotify nice interview

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Nice one Suchin, agree a good film is a good film irrespective of the language

content is the king. Malayalam movie is full of talents be it Director, Actor, Content creator etc. Rich of talents

Watch again and again 80's,90's malaylam movie

1. MAMMOOTTY 2.MOHANLAL 3.DULQUER SALMAN 4.FAHADH FASIL 5.PRITHVIRAJ 6.TOVINO 7.NIVIN POULY 8.VINEETH SREENIVASAN 9.BASIL JOSEPH 10.SURAJ

Fafa... Always rock.. 🔥

Real problem now in malayalam is finance inspite of the immense talent.

The budget constrains of malayalam industry is the main reason, and as he said we do not need to make our own mass movies, as we consider Tamil movie as our own and it can be released and enjoyed across kerala in Tamil even without subtitles .. We may not have panindian malayali movies but definitely have pan indian technicians, original ideas. The latest being DOP of Pathan...Sachith Paulose.

For d literature loving Malayali movie buffs like myself, Bahubali is lion king played by actual humans n similar success which that movie has found can be replicated in Malayalam with only0.1 % coz a deserving script has nvr been unearthed yet. For us, it’s content over form, any day !!! Not a Prithviraj fan for d very same reasons. He has been trying to bring both very badly, however to no avail. There’s that fine line that has to be crossed or needs to be maintained for making such a movie in Malayalam.

Honestly, I get Malayalies wanting to a good mass movie I am getting bored of watching Telugu mass movies not because they are bad or don't have good production I want variety like big budget fantasy they tried radhe shyam and sita ramam as a big budget grand romance can we have a more big budget movie with more verity

Dulqer Salmaan new defination malayalam mivie micro acting peak actor

Malayalam movies should not ape masala films of Telugu. Malayalam movies are good because they're realistic and rooted

The blessing in disguise for Malayalam movies is the small market it caters to. This takes them out of the race with the big budget commercial nauseating movies made everywhere else. Malayalam movies branched out from literature as most of the movie makers were writers. We lost few years in Mohanlals superhero image, but slowly reverted to its roots...

This talk was only about how Malayalam cinema can become more typical commercial. And honestly we need to talk more of why and how other film industries are not on the level of Malayalam cinema when it comes to actually good interesting cinema that are brilliantly written. That is what's commercial in malayalam. Not these kgfs and rrr that can be found in spades.

One thing that we need to understand is there is no need for a Malayalam movie to showcase the grandeur or the budget something similar to RRR or KGF or Baahubali. The producers will never put that much amount of money due to multiple reasons: 1. The theatre tickets in Kerala cost from Rs.40-Rs.150/- even in the metropolitan cities like Kochi. 2. They have screens around of radius of 2-3 kms. but the ticket costs are so less that it becomes difficult to project those numbers. 3. Malayalam movies hardly run for 1 week or max 2 weeks with limited shows (even movies of superstars) in other metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Bangalore etc. 4. Now if you compare with Kantara, I would say Kantara was a one off and it is difficult to project same numbers again unless the story is relatable.

I am a malayali but I loved the 2000s era of comedy and mass films rather than the realistic ones they are making in the past decade or so...there are guys like me who too prefer the same ...even with so much popularity gained in past few years malayalam films aren't doing great outside Kerala in theaters due to the realism in it..people would prefer watching those realistic ones in OTT rather than theatre coz they aren't grand or aren't eye pleasing...basically it is not an escapism...But majority of them as he said prefer watching tamil movies for mass films.. No wonder why vijay and suriya and allu arjun belong in the top 5 heroes in Kerala apart from the big Ms

Worrying that all discussions are pointed towards "mass" movies, as if that is the ultimate standard to strive for.

There was a mass movie in malayalam With prthviraj Urmi!

Mollywood 🔥

We can do mass appealing movies. By mass i didnt mean movies like KGF and bahubali but movies like Kantara, minnal murali, #2018 etc. These are the movies which rooted and at the same time big enough to pull the other lang audience. I have some expectation on upcoming tovino movie ARM which is rroted to a local fictional period drama

Need anupama mam

Suchin stan ❤

Lucifer was brilliant film

True, I do love to see mass movies in Tamil, Telugu and kannada but hate our movies doing those types of shenanigans here

Kerala people watch all languages movies Hindi Tamil kanada Telugu English and Korean movies.kersla audience so intellectual.

Firstly Malayalam cinema isn't popular but it deserves to be for it's writing n performances... One path breaking film should arrive like kgf from kannada Vikram from Tamilnadu bahubali from Telugu. I m sure even malyalam does arrive very very soon

Jaya jaya jaya jaya he Mukundan unni associates Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

As a Malayali and an 80s kid, I have grown up watching several Malayalam films. A mass Malayalam film is a little odd because that charm of Malayalam films compared to other South Indian language films is the subtlety, natural and almost realistic stories. There is no larger than life drama, suspending disbelief, etc compared to say Tamil or Telugu. However, I feel that a true Malayalam mass film should be made but we have quite a long way to go for that because our whole film making perception has to change to defy our core Malayali audience where say they just accept that we can also do it our own way but make it grandiose like say an RRR with strong memorable story lines. The problem is that attempts were made by Prithiviraj on 'Lucifer' and Basil Joseph's 'Minal Murali'... I am sorry to say that both films were below average. Total waste of a concept and plot.... these films could have been great but it just did not click. 'Minal Murali' was partly hyped more than its actual worth. 'Lucifer' seemed to give more importance to the starcast in it than the story and the plot was a mess of ideas. Mass movies do not happen just because by default you are spending millions and throwing in a bunch of legends. I think the best approach to take is not to go with this notion that we are going to make a "mass movie" but more by being free and at the same time being true to our roots like how 'Kantara' did for Kannada (which almost reminded me of Malayalam films).

Malayalam is the realwood, originality wood, real acting etc 95% malayalam viewers looking for logical convenice, its hard to entertain malayalees without logics. At the sametime they are not logical priority for other industry movies and enjoys the movies 100%. Malayalam has most no of legendary actors in india. I am 100% sure malayalam is no 1 position in the creation of movies that passes decades over time and enthusiasting generations All other industry is now ruling (both acting and boxoffice wise) new super stars But mollywood still rules Big Ms.

Shouldn't the title be why is malayalam cinema the least popular.

Who is this man... He doesn't know anything about malayalam movies it's core... He doesn't to explain it's essence...

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Simple criteria mallu film maker follows here don't underestimate the audience, don't challenge mallu people's intelligence..

I think Sachin should just let the guest speak.

We do make shit movies as well. The latest one is "Monster" played by Mohanlal and "Christopher" done by Mammotty. And, guess what? They went to the trash bin after the first day and there are trillions of trolls on social media about these crap movies. The thing is that we do not like stories that don't make sense even if it is done by a megastar and even he will be trolled left and right. The biggest strength is the matured audience. We do like to watch mass mega action movies from tamil, telugu and hindi as well and treat them as entertainment only. But, when it comes to Malayalam, there is no compromise in the quality of the content and the script writers and directors know about it. That's why they make cult classics like ee.mai. yau, kumbalangi nights, ayyappanum koshiyum, kala, The great Indian kitchen and many other quality movies. A simple story line happens in a small village or a simple incident and the rest is in the hands of script writers, directors , DOP, music directors and of-course actors.

To the malayalies - can we throw way the “Wood” from Our Industry, please never refer to MALAYALAM FILM INDUSTRY with that TAIL , coz we ain’t a copy paste of another industry and we never tried to be like any other Industry not our actors not our contents and not our audience. So please stop following the way Hindi, Tamil, Telugu industry want that tail in theirs, we don’t want that. STOP WESTERNIZATION IN THE INDUSTRY AND CULTURE.

@ 2:41 @vishal is talking about @raunaqmangottil. Hey!! don't jump into criticize Raunaq here. He's a gem. Its just that he's little too much obsessed with Premam.

Udude malayalam movies and not at all popular its underrated

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In Malayalam only Mohanlal can do mass

Popular??? Since when??😂

Unpopular opinion - Malayalam films are not actually popular🙃....

Malayali audience wants realistic movies.. the mass masala movie will never succeed here.. which cheats science.. there are a lot of trolls for this reason many have trolled telugu and kannada here 😂

Mohanlal>>>>>rest of malayalam actors iykyk

Mohanlal ❤️

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Change this guy…

Who is this man talking about malayalam movies.. Not convey ing his talk properly.. Should invite someone else who can convey properly.. 😏

Y Malayalam cinema is popular bcz of pro team😅

Mommty

popular with whom ?. Most Indian cinema is irrelevant at the world stage . world knows one indian movie now that is RRR.

Like current state of Hollywood, mollywood also become a woke film industry..... Only woke feminism movies ....that too forced wokisam and forced political correctness.....it's more like watching a online class on political correctness....no story .....only few dir like LJP , dileesh , basil , ratish balkrishna potuval ect make some real movies.....rest all flow with the wind....more like extend version of shortfilm iam also from Kerala....we need to relay on Tamil or Telugu for an entertainer or thriller or horrer ....that's why kgf and kantara collecting crors from Kerala.... I want thet 80s and 90s type Malayalam cinema.....the real Malayalam cinema

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Who said Malayalam cinema is popular?? Any statistics? If you are talking about awards, then it is not public opinion. Still a Malayalam cinema can't have a pan Indian release not followed by people from other states.

Kannada cinema has the best mix of all type movies recently. Most madsy KGF to most classy 777charlie becoming superhits same year

Most Malayalam movies are c grade boring versions of western artsy stuff that is why they don't win any awards on the circuit or copies/heavily inspired from movies like Nightcrawler,searching and gazillion other English movies . There is an entire reddit list about it