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**seosoftseo** · 07-09-2008, 05:55 PM

Very good essay by Jeyamohan.
Thanks Joe.

When we bought our VCR - around '93 - there was video rental guy near our colony in Madurai who was a Malayalee. He used to get casettes of many Malayalam films. My mother and aunt started watching so many of them that they can understand the language quite well. I too used to watch on and off and at that time could only see the films were different from the melodrama of our films.Often times it would be a regular family sentiment film, but narrated so simply and fluently that they are impressive. Most importantly by watching those films one would get a fair impression of how the local culture was there - which is NOT something we can say of most of our films.

Sad to learn that all this is on the decline.

07-09-2008, 05:55 PM	#8
seosoftseo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 597 Senior Member	Very good essay by Jeyamohan. Thanks Joe. When we bought our VCR - around '93 - there was video rental guy near our colony in Madurai who was a Malayalee. He used to get casettes of many Malayalam films. My mother and aunt started watching so many of them that they can understand the language quite well. I too used to watch on and off and at that time could only see the films were different from the melodrama of our films.Often times it would be a regular family sentiment film, but narrated so simply and fluently that they are impressive. Most importantly by watching those films one would get a fair impression of how the local culture was there - which is NOT something we can say of most of our films. Sad to learn that all this is on the decline.
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