Abstract
Studies on city and cinema have become a major field of research.
This article tries to focus on the representation of the city Kochi in
Kerala, and Malayalam films. Kochi being a port city has been the
point where people around the globe arrived to develop trade
relations with India. However, curiously enough, the city still
appears to cradle the western influence in nostalgic manner and
also seems to cherish it through many newly organized events and
customs. Kochi has also been attributed a status as the center of
many underworld activities by the tinsel town and films over the
last decade have celebrated to a phenomenal level. This article
critically analyzes the representation of Kochi in a few selected
movies like Big B, Chappa Kurishu, and Chotta Mumbai. Big B
focuses entirely on the corrupted city life, crimes and revenge while
Chappa Kurishu tries to juxtapose the lives of an upper-class and a
lower-class representative. On the other hand, Chhotta Mumbai is a
story told in a lighter vein about the lives of small time goons in the
street old Chhotta Mumbai in Fort Kochi. This image of the colonies
is constructed by the dominant institutions of our society. The
media thus reproduced the viewpoints of dominant institutions not
as one among a number of alternative perspectives, but as the
central and ‘obvious’ or ‘natural’ perspective.
Indu P. (2017) The Cinematic Discourse of the City: A Case Study of Kochi in Contemporary Malayalam Movies , Journal of Media Studies, Volume 32, Issue 1.
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