After the unprecedented success of art house movies CR No 89 and Asthamayam Vare (Unto the Dusk), Kanyaka Talkies, directed by K.R. Manoj gears up for theatrical release in selected theatres across Kerala on Friday.
The film had won the state film award for these categories—best debutant director, best sound recording and second best actress. It also got its ticket to fly to various film festivals including the Goa Film Festival and Indian Panorama.
The movie starring Murali Gopi, Lena, Maniyanpillai Raju and Indrans revolves around a B-grade movie theatre to be transformed into a worship house.
“For me, Kanyaka Talkies is the obsession about these interconnections which defy any kind of linearity and ideas of progression. This cinema primarily is a take on the abyss of cinema itself,” said K.R. Manoj.
The director further said, “Kuyyali can be any other village where colonialism and religion have left their own unique marks on the lives and loves of people. And in that sense Kanyaka Talkies is a non-western filmmaker’s attempt to encounter the two significant imports of colonialism—Christianity and Cinema—and the interconnections between them.”