#but it's unfair to put the burden of feminist filmmaking

[drivingsideways]

The “new’ crop of Malayalam movies I’ve been watching (well, ‘new’ in grandma-me time, as I catch up with movies made post 2000?) are great- like knocking-my-socks-off great- in many respects- except for the stalker-y “romances” which are so fucking off-putting. Even the big “hit” romances that I’ve been watching have all suffered from this, whether that’s “om shanti oshana” (where the stalker is the underage girl, oh, so much more fun) or the guy (I’m looking at you “Bangalore Days”, “Maheshinte Prathikaram”, “Annayum Rasoolum”). I understand it’s a conservative, patriarchal,heteronormative society that doesn’t really allow free interaction between men and women, but use your fucking imagination, gdi.  Give the women a literal voice. ( “Annayum Rasoolum” was the worst offender of the movies I watched so far, did Andrea Jeremiah have more than ten lines of dialogue in the entire fucking film of 2 hrs? And then her character commits suicide, silencing her forever.) 

Tell the story of the world as it could be, that’s part of your fucking job.