Source: OnlookersMediaĪn Adoor Gopalakrishnan movie, Naalu Pennungal is the story of 4 women at different stages in life. It's a story of revenge, brotherhood, love and a whole lot of family politics. Mammooty plays Bilal, the prodigal son, and does complete justice to the character, holding the film together. The four siblings live away from home, and it's her brutal murder that gets them back together. One of Malayalam cinema's spectacular action-thriller flicks, Big B tells the story of a mother (Nafisa Ali) who is a social worker, who raised her four adopted sons as her own.
If you're open to watching regional movies or are a Malayali who wants to watch more Malayalam movies, then you should totally add these 32 gems from the last decade to your must-watch list: Films like 22 Female Kottayam and Drishyam have paved way for a larger audience and a much better film experience. Especially in the last decade, Malayalam cinema has seen some very exceptional movies. However, slowly and steadily, Malayalam cinema is breaking the mould it was set in and lately, it has been churning out movies that are not only great, but also have world-class appeal. While there's no denying the fact that such movies do exist, doesn't every film industry have some of those? After all, even Bollywood has its fair share of Flying Jatts. The following year Toni Morrison posthumously published Bambara’s Deep Sightings and Rescue Mission (1996).For way too long, Malayalam movies have earned a bad rep for being over-the-top and unrealistic. Toni Cade Bambara died from colon cancer in 1995. As the decade progressed, Bambara concentrated more on script writing and television production, often with political and social messages. The following year she won the Langston Hughes Society Award, another prestigious writing honor. In 1980, Bambara published her first novel, The Salt Eaters, which earned the American Book Award. She published another collection of her short stories in 1977, The Sea Birds are Still Alive.
In the early 1970s, she risked travel to Communist Cuba and Viet Nam to research women, and then took a series of academic appointments at a number of universities. A year later she published her own collection of short stories in Gorilla, My Love, edited by Toni Morrison and featuring fifteen stories on black women’s relationships and self-love. During that time she also wrote her first screenplay, “Zora,” which was produced by WGBH in Boston. Along with her own work, Bambara edited a collection of short stories, poems and articles titled The Black Women (1970) and Tales and Stories for Black Folks (1971). From 1969 to 1974 she was an associate professor of English at Livingston College.īambara’s influence for her writings came from the streets of New York, where she experienced the teachings of Garveyites, Muslims, Pan-Africanists and Communists against the backdrop and the culture of jazz music. While there, she published short stories and became interested in film production. In 1965, she was hired to teach English at the City University of New York’s fledgling SEEK program for economically-disadvantaged students. During that time she studied in Florence as well as Paris, and earned an MA degree from City College of New York in 1964. She was a social investigator from 1959 to 1961, and then worked in the psychiatry department of New York City’s Metropolitan Hospital. At the age of six, she changed her name to Toni, and in 1970 she added the surname Bambara after finding it among her great-grandmother’s belongings.īambara earned her BA in theater arts/ English at Queens College in 1959, the same year she published “Sweet Town,” her first short story. She was born in 1939 in Harlem, New York. Originally named Miltona Mirkin Cade at birth, Toni Cade Bambara was a civil rights activist, writer, teacher, and filmmaker.