The significance of Santosh Pandit: a systematic analysis of stupidly

Hello filmmakers, are you just leaning back on your cozy cushion, Watching Santosh Pandit, and commenting- what stupidity is this? Well, behold, he is a satiric mirror held against your own bad films and the hapless people who were trapped in the theatre. It is not Santosh Pandit, but you- you need a cosmetic surgery. Malayalam cinema badly needs a cosmetic surgery.

Well, Santosh Pandit’s film is an accidental mockery of the Malayalam film. Many of the films are made out of a formulaic recipe, and they make the aesthetic belly of the moviegoers sick. Sometimes, a few good efforts like Traffic or Salt N’ Pepper happen. But…

Now the history of Malayalam Cinema can be divided into two periods. BS (Before Santosh Pandit) and AS (After Santosh Pandit). This satiric celebration of stupidity perhaps comes from a collective sense of frustration of the movie goers. We have seen many ‘mainstream movies’ that were atrociously stupid, and we have often sat helplessly in theatre thinking about our loss-Time, money, popcorns and pepsi…all went down the drain. This bizarre phenomenon is a warning for those film makers who are churning out stupidity clad in sizzling shots.

As our hero says, ‘’Nee valiyavanayirikkam, pakshe athinartham njan cheriyavananu ennalla. ‘’