Malayalam Cinema Quiz

1. Which film uses repetitive cooking, cleaning, and household rituals to examine unequal domestic expectations placed on a newly married woman?

2. A film follows the tragic love between Karuthamma, the daughter of a fisherman, and Pareekutty, a Muslim fish trader. Which literary adaptation is it?

3. Clara and Radha are both central to the emotional conflicts of Jayakrishnan in which film?

4. An escaped animal triggers an increasingly chaotic hunt that exposes rivalry and collective aggression among villagers. Which film is being described?

5. What is the name of Mohanlal's central character in Kireedam?

6. Which landmark film, directed by P. Bhaskaran and Ramu Kariat, is noted for bringing social realism and major national recognition to Malayalam cinema?

7. Which film is widely recognized as the first Malayalam-language talkie?

8. A story centers on Kunhikuttan, an artist whose identity and personal pain are intertwined with a classical performance tradition. Which tradition is central to Vanaprastham?

9. Which Malayalam film is celebrated as India's first 3D feature film?

10. In Premam, the protagonist's romantic life is shown across school, college, and adulthood. Who is that protagonist?

11. A man's wish for an impressive funeral becomes the darkly comic focus of escalating confusion in a coastal community. Which film matches this plot?

12. Which performer played Ganga and her Nagavalli persona in Manichitrathazhu?

13. Which film adapts Vaikom Muhammad Basheer's account of a prison romance conducted across a wall?

14. Who directed the acclaimed film Elippathayam?

15. Four brothers with a strained home life gradually rebuild their relationships in a fishing-village setting. Which film fits this description?

16. A family constructs a detailed alibi involving a movie trip, restaurant visit, and bus journey. Which film uses this strategy as its central suspense device?