Mollywood goes bold

An industry known to be one of the most conservative when it comes to onscreen love scenes is now breaking all barriers to show it as it is. We explores...
While every other film industry has moved on from the clich�� picture where flowers or love birds were used to represent the union of the lead actors on screen, Mollywood may have taken a bit longer than the others to break away from the same.New-age Malayalam films have not just raised the bar in terms of content, but have also gone bold. Today, scenes leave little to the imagination of the audience ��� in an attempt to keep things as real as it can be.
Take for instance Shyamaprasad���s Rithu, which saw actors Rima Kallingal and Nishan in a heated love-making scene in a car. Fahadh Faasil, who is lately been referred to as Mollywood���s own Emraan Hashmi, has earned that title thanks to the love-making scenes that he has been a part of in films like Chappa Kurishu, 22 Female Kottayam and Diamond Necklace.
Films like Urumi, Neelathamara, Rathinirvedam, Nidra and the promos of yet-to-be-released film Bachelor Party have crossed all previous limitations to include lip-locks and erotic scenes. Director-cum-cinematographer Sameer Thahir, of Chappa Kurishu and Diamond Necklace fame, believes this marks growth in the industry. ���Using objects do represent love-making scenes is a thing of the past. The audience is open too, and scenes like these are not perceived as vulgar. Filmmakers too include such scenes only when it is really required and ensure that it is shot aesthetically,��� he says.
Sameer adds, ���If the intensity of the emotion between two people is to be communicated to the audience, it has to be done visually. When cinema talks about life, it is bound to include everything that is a part of it. Like food, sex is also part of life. If we can show life, we can surely show love-making scenes.���
While people consider this to be the influence of cultures in Hollywood and Bollywood, Sameer insists, ���It���s the influence of cinema, not culture. Malayalam films did not include such scenes when it was bound to be censored. Today, this has become a part of films, irrespective of which film industry one is talking about.���