Some years back, when I challenged a friend for saying, 'Women tend to be bitchy', he dug his heels in. 'C'mon Anna, gossip is a woman thing,' he insisted. So, I set him a task: pinpoint at least one ...

The stories one associates with the Malayalam film industry these days are joyous — of it making yet another movie that defies conventional box office logic, of it telling a familiar story in ...