Cinema, on the other hand, offers resources to inscribe the mutuality of the two places in the collective memory of Kerala. However, what is lost in these accounts is the simultaneity and interlinked nature of the two places. There has been increasing instances of memorialising the Gulf in the Malayalam public sphere since the beginning of the 2000s which brings to light the subjective aspects of the Gulf migration. However, until recently, the migrant figured in the public discourse of Kerala as an economic agent alone. The south Indian state of Kerala, which predominantly speaks Malayalam, is a major contributor to the migrant labour force in the Gulf region for the last five decades. This paper is an exploration of cinematic memory as a resource for remembering large-scale Keralan migration to the Gulf since the late 1960s.
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