Several structural and cultural pillars set Malayalam cinema apart from its larger Indian counterparts like Bollywood or Tollywood:
Crucially, these films preserved the (regional) dialects. The Malayalam spoken in the northern district of Kannur has brutal, sharp consonants; the southern dialect of Travancore is soft and syrupy. The stars switched between these dialects with ease, ensuring that linguistic diversity was preserved on the silver screen. Several structural and cultural pillars set Malayalam cinema