Patriot and Malayalam Cinema’s uneasy tryst with privacy Movie Poster IMDB Mahesh Narayanan’s cinema, Patriot, brought back an archaic form of communication; an almost obsolete form of communication as a quietly radical instinct in an era where every message is instant, visible and stored. Here morse code was not nostalgia, it was resistance. In a film that otherwise follows a familiar, almost predictable trajectory, this choice feels strangely disruptive. It doesn’t just sit

Poster from JioHotstar “Films entertain”, but some films leave behind a feeling, a character or sometimes a question that lingers long after the screen turns dark and Sarvam Maya is one such film. It disguises the emotional depth beneath the lightness of a supernatural rom-com. Directed by Akhil Sathyan, the film plays around with the idea of illusion, memory and companionship through the character of Delulu. She appears to be a supernatural element full of whimsy: a predam (