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The Minister for Cultural Affairs, Saji Cheriyan, announced the 53rd Kerala State Film Awards on Friday, July 21, 2023. The awards recognized the best of Malayalam cinema in 2023, from a total of 154 films. The jury was led by acclaimed Bengali filmmaker and screenplay writer Gautam Ghose.

The Best Film award went to Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery. The film featured Mammootty as James, who wakes up as Sundaram, a different person with a different life. Mammootty also won the Best Actor award for his outstanding performance in the film, which received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike. This is his sixth Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor.

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The Best Actress award was given to Vincy Aloshious for her portrayal of Rekha, a woman who fights against injustice and oppression in a patriarchal society. The film Rekha, directed by Jithin Issac Thomas, was...

Film analysisVelayudha Panicker’s story has been little celebrated even in Kerala, where he fought to end the many inhuman acts unleashed on the oppressed caste.CrisIMDBWhen Siju Wilson is first introduced in the film Pathonpatham Noottandu (‘the nineteenth century’), he appears as a mild-mannered young man, keeping his distance from the ruling class men of the dominant caste. In the few minutes he is inside the premises of their domain, he observes the injustices that go on in there – an oppressed caste virgin forced to go to sleep with a lustful Britishman, two slave men made to fight each other until one of them dies. He finally reacts when one of the men is being asked to kill the other, snatching the weapon, and riding away on a horse. That is how Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a social reformer believed to be the first martyr of the renaissance movement in Kerala,...

Shruti Vijayan, wife of Malayalam actor Siju Wilson, who plays the lead in the 19th-century period drama, ‘Pathonpatham Noottandu’, has penned an emotional post wishing her husband the best of luck for his film.

The film, which is about the warrior and social reformer Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, was released on Thursday for Onam.

Taking to Instagram, Shruti wrote: “Finally, the big day is here after waiting for two years. I recall the day when you called me after meeting Vinayan Sir…’Shruti, it’s a huge movie… a historic movie I always wanted to do. This is a great opportunity to learn new things and I want to give my best for this.’

She added: “From that day till this day Siju Wilson, I have seen the spark in your eyes and you did not let it go till this time. I have seen you training like a beast, even...