A film like Elippathayam (The Rat Trap, 1981) is not just a film; it is a psychoanalysis of a dying feudal order. The protagonist, a landlord unable to adapt to the post-land-reform era, is literally trapped in his decaying manor. This narrative could only emerge from Kerala, a state that saw one of the world’s earliest democratically elected communist governments in 1957. The cinema gave voice to the anxiety of that political and social upheaval.
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