He lit a beedi. “They can’t. This is not communication. This is sambhavana — a happening. Malayalam cinema happens between the coconut tree and the Christian choir, between the mosque’s call and the temple’s bell. It happens because we know that sorrow is not a plot point. Sorrow is the weather.”

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