However, the industry has also been slow to confront its own caste blindness. For a long time, the heroes were exclusively upper-caste Nairs or Namboodiris (Mohanlal, Mammootty), while Dalit and lower-caste characters were relegated to comic relief or service roles. This changed painfully with the arrival of new wave filmmakers. Perariyathavar (2015) and Keshu (2016) forced the audience to look at the brutality of the caste system hiding beneath the state’s "God’s Own Country" veneer. The recent Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2020) is a brilliant deconstruction of this: a caste-class war between a police officer (upper-caste) and a retired havildar (lower-caste) disguised as a masculinity clash.
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