Whichever way you treat a film, there will always be different interpretations. Some Kerala viewers consider you Islamophobic. But now people have started checking out the film’s cinematic moments. Differing viewpoints on cinema are inevitable anyway. Has the storm in Kerala after Malik’s release settled down? In an interview spanning several hours, the award-winning editor-writer-director spoke to me about this allegation that has dogged him since Take Off (2017), his politics and his filmmaking sensibilities. The going has not been uniformly smooth though, with a section of Kerala’s audience accusing Malik of Islamophobia. He is now juggling multiple directorial ventures, including his first in Tamil and Hindi. His C U Soon and Malikhave made waves during the pandemic, with Malik being one of 2021’s most talked about films. Mahesh Narayanan has been a moving force behind this trend and a beneficiary. No cinematic trend in India in 2021 has rivalled the manner in which Malayalam cinema swept past language barriers and ‘national’ media apathy to grab eyeballs across the country. It’s the final quarter of the year, a time for stock-taking.
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