For thirty years, he forgot it. He got married, raised a family, watched the new wave of Malayalam cinema arrive. He admired their realism, their tight scripts, their middle-class apartments and coffee shops. But something was missing. The sweat. The smell of kariveppila (curry leaves) from a roadside stall. The way the light filters through a coconut frond after a storm.
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