7 Malayalam movies of 2022 that proved Southern sweep of field workplace is NOT solely about massive budgets

Malayalam cinema has at all times been related to grandeur content material and costly filmmaking. This can be a recognized proven fact that North India’s first full-fledged main tryst with Southern Cinema got here in the course of the pandemic and since then, there’s been no trying again. The change is sweeping by way of all 4 south Indian movie industries.

Nicely, again and again it’s being stated, the best content material can solely lead movie-hungry audiences to packed cinema halls. Speaking particularly about Malayalam movies, they could have accomplished effectively in their very own geographies however had an equal potential to discover a pan-India viewers.  Efficiency of Malayalam movies in non-southern or past their core markets is sadly and usually sporadic.

Anybody who’s effectively conscious of the Mollywood trade is aware of there’s something very totally different and distinctive about their motion pictures. This yr, in 2022, many small-budget movies with zero hype took over the field workplace like a boss. Basil Joseph, Darsana Rajendran’s movie Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey is the most recent instance. Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey made on a funds of Rs 5 crore, has practically collected round Rs 40 crore approx alone from the preliminary releasing factors of Kerala and GCC. That is an enormous feat for a small-budget movie on home violence.

The movie’s story revolves round a poisonous marriage and the way the spouse finds an uncommon technique to fight it. A critical difficulty rightly suits into an entertaining script. Basil Joseph, the lead actor is thought globally for his directorial movie Minnal Murali and the heroine, Darshana performed the feminine lead function within the much-celebrated film Hridayam.

Hridayam to Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey

Nna Thaan Case Kodu and Mukundan Unni Associates

One other lately launched Malayalam movie Mukundan Unni Associates starring Vinneeth Sreenivasan has earned rave critiques. The directorial debut of Abhinav, Mukundan Unni managed to steal the eye for its creative filmmaking fashion and novel narrative.

Nna Thaan Case Kodu was launched theatrically on 11 August 2022. Directed by Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval and starring  Kunchacko Boban and Gayathrie Shankar, the movie proved that natural humour works wonders. Made on a really small funds, Kunchacko Boban’s Nna Thaan Case Kodu hit the Rs 50 crore mark on the field workplace.