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