Outside the ‘Sexual’: Depiction of the Female Body in the New-Generation Malayalam Cinema

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementThe Authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and valuable improvements to the paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Freedom Fight is an anthology movie, and two of its segments The Unorganised Sector and Old Age Home, are considered for analysis in this paper.2 A string hopper dish popular in the South Indian state of Kerala.3 Known in English as Calicut, Kozhikode is an important city in the Malabar region of Kerala.4 The first segment under consideration from the anthology Freedom Fight.5 In the context of the marriages in Kerala, it is customary for the brides to clothe themselves in the finest embellishment as wedding ceremonies are usually an occasion of social display.6 The second segment under consideration from the anthology Freedom Fight.