Malayalam cinema
Landmark films

Malayalam cinema

Section Title: Landmark films
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Year	Title	Director	Notes	Ref.

1928	Vigathakumaran	J. C. Daniel	First Malayalam feature film.

1933	Marthandavarma	P. V. Rao	First copyright case in Indian film industry as well as literature publishing of Kerala.

1938	Balan	S. Nottani	First talkie in Malayalam.

1948	Nirmala	P. V. Krishna Iyer	Introduced playback singing in Malayalam cinema.

1954	Neelakkuyil	P. Bhaskaran Ramu Karyat	Considered[who?] the first mature film in Malayalam. The film excelled in direction, screenplay, acting and music.

1955	Newspaper Boy	P. Ramdas	First neo realistic movie in Malayalam.	.

1961	Kandam Bacha Coat	Shiyas Chennattu	First colour film.

1964	Bhargavi Nilayam	A. Vincent	First horror film.

1965	Chemmeen	Ramu Karyat	First Malayalam as well as South Indian film to win the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, and the first film to participate in an international film festival.

1965	Murappennu	A. Vincent	First film to shoot outdoors.

1966	Iruttinte Athmavu	P. Bhaskaran	First serious attempt at sensitive storytelling. Considered to be the masterpiece work of P. Bhaskaran and Prem Nazir.[clarification needed]

1967	Chithramela	T. S. Muthiah	First anthology film.

1972	Swayamvaram	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Pinoeered "new-wave cinema movement" in Malayalam. First Malayalam film to win the National Film Award for Best Direction.

1974	Kanchana Sita	G. Aravindan	Pinoeered independent filmmaking in South India.[clarification needed]

1978	Thacholi Ambu	Navodaya Appachan	First CinemaScope film in Malayalam.

1982	Padayottam	Jijo Punnoose	First 70mm film in South India.

1984	My Dear Kuttichathan	Jijo Punnoose	First 3D film in India.

1986	Amma Ariyan	John Abraham	First Malayalam film produced by collecting fund from public. The only South Indian film to feature in British Film Institute's Top 10 Indian Films list.

1993	O' Faby	K. Sreekuttan	India's first live-action/animation hybrid film.	.

1994	Swaham	Shaji N.Karun	First Malayalam film to compete for the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival.

1997	Guru	Rajiv Anchal	First Malayalam film to be submitted as India's official entry to the Oscars to be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 1997.

2005	Athbhutha Dweepu	Vinayan	The film was given an entry into the Guinness Book of Records for casting the most number of dwarves in a single film, and its lead actor Ajaykumar was given an entry for being the shortest actor to play the lead in the history of cinema.

2006	Moonnamathoral	V. K. Prakash	First Malayalam digital movie, and first high-definition (HD) cinema to be digitally distributed to theatres via satellite.

2009	Pazhassi Raja	Hariharan	First Malayalam film to get a home video release in Blu-ray format.

2010	Jalachhayam	Sathish Kalathil	First feature film shot entirely on a Mobile phone camera.	.

2012	Grandmaster	B. Unnikrishnan	First Malayalam film to release with subtitles (English) in outside Kerala, in other than film festival screenings.

2013	Drishyam	Jeethu Joseph	First Malayalam film to cross ₹500 million (US$7.0 million) gross collection from theatrical revenue.

2016	Pulimurugan	Vysakh	First Malayalam film to cross ₹1 billion (US$14 million) gross collection from theatrical revenue.

2017	Villain	B. Unnikrishnan	First Indian film to be shot entirely in 8K resolution.

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Guru (1997), directed by Rajiv Anchal, was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars to be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for that year, making it the first film in Malayalam to be chosen for Oscar nomination.

final_sentence: Guru (1997), directed by Rajiv Anchal, was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars to be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for that year, making it the first film in Malayalam to be chosen for Oscar nomination.