In 1954, the film Neelakuyil captured national interest by winning the President's silver medal. One such film, Jeevitha Nouka (1951), was a musical drama which spoke about the problems in a joint family. Malayalam cinema has always taken its themes from relevant social issues and has been interwoven with material from literature, drama, and politics since its inception.
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Vellinakshatram (1949) was the first movie to be made in Kerala and it took shape at the Udaya Studios at Alleppey. Sankara Kurup became so popular that song-dance sequences became essential ingredients of Malayalam cinema. The lyrics of the film penned by the legendary Malayalam poet G. Cherian was the first cinema producer to explore the possibility of music and songs in cinema and thus became the pioneer to introduce play-back singing in cinema. Thus 'Nirmala' became the first film produced by a Malayali setting many firsts for introducing play-back singing, cinema with a social theme where the entire family could sit together and watch it. He Produced Nirmala in 1948 with Joseph Cherian, Baby Joseph his son and daughter-in-law in the lead roles as hero and heroine and many other family members in other roles breaking the taboo that noble family people do not take up acting. Cherian was the first Malayali producer to venture into this field and the trend then changed. Until 1947 Malayalam films were made by Tamil producers. Subramoniam of Madras and featuring Guru Gopinath and Thankamani Gopinath. Then came Prahlada in 1941 directed by K. Balan was followed by Gnanambika in 1940 which was directed by S. It was produced at Chennai (then Madras) in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. Nottani with a screenplay and songs written by Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai. The first talkie in Malayalam was Balan, released in 1938. However, after only being shown for four days, the film prints were confiscated due to a legal battle over copyright. A second film, Marthanda Varma, based on a novel by C. Daniel founded the first film studio, The Travancore National Pictures Limited, in Kerala. Daniel, a businessman with no prior film experience, who is credited as the father of Malayalam cinema. Production started in 1928, and it was released in Trivandrum Capitol Theatre on 23 October 1930. The first film to be made in Malayalam was Vigathakumaran. In 1913, the first permanent theatre in Kerala was established in Ollur, Thrissur city by Jose and was called the Jose Electrical Bioscope. The first cinema hall in Kerala, with a manually operated film projector, was opened in Thrissur by Jose Kattookkaran in 1907. With support from the Kerala state government production climbed from around 6 a year in the 1950s, through 30 a year in the 1960s, 40 a year in the 1970s, to 127 films in 1980. 7 International Film Festival of KeralaĪctive Malayalam film production did not take place until the second half of the 20th century: there were only two silent films, and three Malayalam-language films before 1947.The film industry is also known as mollywood.Films such as Piravi, Swaham, Marana Simhasanam, Chemmeen, Mathilukal and Vanaprastham were also screened and won awards at several international film festivals. Rajiv Anchal's Guru (1997) and Salim Ahamed's Adaminte Makan Abu (2011) are the only Malayalam films to be sent by India as its official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards, though not selected. The first CinemaScope film produced in Malayalam was Thacholi Ambu (1978). The first 3D film produced in India, My Dear Kuttichathan (1984), was made in Malayalam. Several media sources describe Kochi as the hub of the film industry, while Kerala government publications state that Trivandrum is the centre. By the end of 80s, the Malayalam film industry returned and established itself in Kerala with a major chunk of locations, studios, production and post-production facilities in Kochi and Trivandrum. Later, the industry shifted to Chennai (formerly Madras), which then was the capital of the South Indian film industry. It is also known by the nickname Mollywood.Īt first (beginning in the 1920s), the Malayalam film industry was based in Trivandrum, although the film industry started to develop and flourish only by the late 1940s. Malayalam cinema is a part of Indian Cinema based in Kerala dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language.
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