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The
practice of utilizing literary materials of
repute as raw material for film scripts became
more frequent in 1960s. When well-known stories
and novels, mostly serialized in literary journals,
were made into film, it automatically introduced
lot of cultural elements which were absent in
the Malayalam films of the 50s.
Novels were preferred to other literary sources.
The tendency to borrow literary material for
film making was at its peak in the later sixties
and early seventies. The combined effort of
writers and directors had its impact on Malayalam
film. The general standard of production went
up. Since many of the literary materials were
area-specific, films had to be shot on actual
locations. This was something that was unheard
of at least in Malayalam Cinema a decade before.
Much of the difficulty in providing a realistic
touch in a film like Neelakuyil arose from its
studio-bound interior shots. |
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