“Be it Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali or Malayali… the formulas are out. These were films in different languages and genres, with one thing in common - they were stories of the now, told carefully, delicately, surprisingly. Kumbalangi Nights went viral on Amazon Prime Video and YouTube. Millions around the world tuned in to watched the Alfonso Cuaron-Netflix film Roma, though it was in Spanish Parasite, the 2019 South Korean sleeper hit, won the first Best Picture Oscar ever awarded to a non-English movie. We just planted our new film within that interface.”īut even before the lockdown, the change was visible. “The lockdown took all our lives and turned them digital. It is a time when cinema can grow creatively, he adds, and C U Soon is one such attempt to experiment. That is the power of the ‘global’ audience.” “I, along with my friends in Kerala, watched it. The Fernando Meirelles / Kátia Lund film was about one particular city, but the people from all over the world watched, re-watched and loved it,” he says. “Look at what happened with the City of God. How the audience views his medium is changing, and like any true artist, this excites Fahadh. On smaller screens, it’s easier to take in subtitles and the language barrier has begun to lean, if not topple. The truth is, it’s not Malayalam cinema any more. Faasil in a still from (Amazon Prime Video)
If universal appeal is the goal, why only Malayali films (with two Tamil exceptions)? “I have enormous faith in the future of Malayalam cinema,” Fahadh says. but life’s lessons have kept me grounded.” It was a cookie-cutter rom-com “and I came into it without any preparation. His first film, made by his father Fazil and watched by very few, didn’t really check that box. I tend to think, will the larger audience relate to it?” Fahadh says. “I mean it in the context of entertainment.
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The first question he asks himself when presented with a role, he says, is, “Will it address the nation?” Not in the shrieking TV sense we’ve come to associate that phrase with. Over 10 years, he’s played a schizophrenic killer in Athiran, 2019, an endearing thief ( Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, 2017), a blind painter ( Artist, 2013), and the villain with the warm smile and chilling eyes in the critically acclaimed Kumbalangi Nights, 2019, among other characters. They fell in love while playing a married couple in Anjali Menon’s Bangalore Days, which was released the same year. It was exhausting,” he says.įahadh has been married to actor-producer Nazriya Nazim since 2014. “I needed to portray a vibrant, almost vibrating charisma. His most challenging role so far? The part of the fraud masquerading as a miracle-man pastor in the psychological drama Trance (February 2020). “I’m still waiting for the film after which I can talk about my achievements.” Over 10 years, Fahadh has featured in more than 40 Malayalam films, but says he doesn’t believe he’s done anything spectacular yet. In 2018, Fahadh won a National Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as an endearing thief in the slice-of-life drama Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (The Mainour and the Witness) He made a comeback in 2009, playing a journalist in the short film Mrityunjayam, part of an anthology called Kerala Café. It flopped, and Fahadh left to study Philosophy in the US. Fahadh Faasil made his acting debut at 20, in the rom-com Kaiyethum Doorath (Within Reach 2002), directed by his father Fazil.
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