For now, Kerala’s cities have not chosen a new ideology, they have chosen to send a warning. Whether this moment becomes a lasting shift or a temporary protest will be decided not at the ballot box, but on the streets, wards, and workdays of the cities the BJP now governs.

Before you come at us with “People go to the theatre to have fun!”, we get it! Action thrillers have their place, and they most likely always will.

The politics of naming, especially through a religious lens, is playing out across cultural mediums, especially in cinema, in ways that mirror and reinforce these regressive ideas.