Global InformationMalayalam cinema information
| Malayalam cinema | |
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| No. of screens | 592 screens in Kerala state of India (2022)[1] |
| Main distributors | Aashirvad Cinemas Amal Neerad Productions Anto Joseph Film Company Anwar Rasheed Entertainments Ashiq Usman Productions August Cinema AVA Productions Bhavana Studios Collective Phase One E4 Entertainment Fahadh Faasil and Friends Friday Film House Happy Hours Entertainments Kavya Film Company Lal Creations LJ Films Magic Frames Mammootty Kampany Merryland Studio Mulakuppadam Films Navodaya Studio OPM Cinemas Pauly Jr. Pictures Prithviraj Productions Revathy Kalamandhir Sree Gokulam Movies Swargachitra Ram De Studios Udaya Pictures Wayfarer Films Weekend Blockbusters Working Class Hero |
| Produced feature films (2023)[2] | |
| Total | 259 |
| Indian cinema |
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Malayalam cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language, which is widely spoken in the state of Kerala, India.[3] In 1982, Elippathayam won the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival, and Most Original Imaginative Film of 1982 by the British Film Institute. The film Marana Simhasanam has won the prestigious Caméra d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Rajiv Anchal's Guru (1997), Salim Ahamed's Adaminte Makan Abu (2011), Lijo Jose Pellissery's Jallikkattu (2019) and Jude Anthany Joseph's 2018 (2023) were Malayalam films sent by India as its official entries for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards.
Other films which achieved global acclaim include Chemmeen (1965), which received a Certificate of Merit at the Chicago International Film Festival, and a gold medal at the Cannes Film Festival for Best Cinematography.[4] Swaham (1994) won the Bronze Rosa Camuna at the Bergamo Film Meeting in Italy.[5][6][7][8] The first 3D film produced in India, My Dear Kuttichathan (1984), was made in Malayalam.[9] The first CinemaScope film produced in Malayalam was Thacholi Ambu (1978).[10]
The first Malayalam feature film was Vigathakumaran, a silent film directed and produced by J. C. Daniel. Production started in 1928, and it was released at the Capitol Theatre in Thiruvananthapuram on 23 October 1930.[11] The first talkie in Malayalam was Balan (1938) directed by S. Nottani.[12] During the 1920s, the Malayalam film industry was based in Thiruvananthapuram, although the film industry started to develop and flourish only by the late 1940s. Later the industry shifted to Chennai (formerly Madras), which then was the capital of the South Indian film industry.
By the late 1980s, the Malayalam film industry returned and established itself in Kerala[13] with the majority of locations, studios, production and post-production facilities being located in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. Several media sources describe Kochi as the hub of the film industry.[14][15][16][17] As of 2018, Malayalam cinema has got 14 awards for the best actor, 6 for the best actress, 12 for the best film, and 13 for the best film director at the National Film Awards, India.[18]
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- ^ "PIRAVI". Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ^ "SWAHAM". Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^ "MARANA SIMHASANAM". Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
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- ^ official website of INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATION DEPARTMENT Archived 4 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Prd.kerala.gov.in. Retrieved on 29 July 2013.
- ^ "Kochi sizzling onscreen". The New Indian Express. 29 January 2013. Archived from the original on 26 May 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
- ^ "Mollywood comes home to Kochi". The Hindu. 4 March 2013. Archived from the original on 15 May 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
- ^ "Veedu". Malayala Manorama. 23 May 2013. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ "Mini-film city at Ramanthuruth". The Times of India. 7 November 2017. Archived from the original on 9 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ Chandran 2018, p. 358-361.