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Kerala is a religious mosaic (Hindu, Muslim, Christian). Malayalam cinema handles this with sensitivity and spectacle.

Classics like Kireedam (1989) dealt with the pressure of being the son of a police constable in a small town, where failing to get a job (preferably a Gulf job) meant social death. Later, films like Unda (2019) took a different turn, showing a group of Kerala policemen in the Maoist-affected jungles of North India, contrasting the soft, beef-eating, secular Malayali sensibility against a more militant, conservative Indian landscape.