malayalam recommendations
Favorite Malayalam 2025
My favorite Malayalam movies of 2025: Thalavara, Eko, and Lokah: Chapter One
Favorite Malayalam 2022
Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey - Jaya (Darshana Rajendran) is a young woman who wants to finish her college education and get a job before taking on the responsibilities of marriage. Unfortunately for her, cultural norms in her community favor marriage...
Favorite Malayalam 2021
The Great Indian Kitchen a family drama centering around a young newly married couple told from the woman’s point of view. All is going well until mother-in-law must go to her daughter’s home and keeping to two men happy falls onto the bride....
Minnal Murali
Basil Joseph has created a great superhero origin story. This Malayalam language film rivals the best in the business, Marvel. The two main characters are quirky and charming at the same time. Ordinary men, they share many similarities but because...
The Great Indian Kitchen
I would term ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ a slice-of-life drama, meaning that it captures a slice of the ordinary and mundane existence of real life. This unique film examines the life of a newly married Malayalam couple. The story is told from the...
Kuruthi
Kuruthi (‘ritual slaughter’), (Malayalam 2021), is a social thriller that examines the attitudes of a small group of Hindus and Muslims that reflect a larger problem in Indian society. Ibrahim (Roshan Mathews) is a devout Muslim who is struggling...
Kumbalangi Nights
Best of Malayalam 2019 Kumbalangi Nights is a heart-felt family drama about four brothers and their journey from dysfunction to wholeness. First-time director Madhu Narayanan and writer Syam Pushkaran explore what it means to be a man in today’s...
Halal Love Story
The Malayalam film industry seems to specialize in heartwarming slice of life movies, films that help us understand the culture, the surroundings, and most of all people groups with whom we are not familiar.
