The contemporary music of Malayalam cinema has also deviated from Bollywood’s orchestral glitz. Songs like Parudeesa (from Kumbalangi Nights ) or Ee Puzhayum (from Ennu Ninte Moideen ) rely on folk instruments—the nanpaya drum, the kurumkuzhal pipe—rooting the listener in the soil of Malabar.
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