Though it lacks conviction or a reasonable raison d’être and disappoints overall, the recent Malayalam film, Leela, may well have been saved by sustaining the appetite for the new.
While the forthcoming assembly elections in Kerala will be bitterly contested, for very many the writing on the wall clearly portends a return of the Left Front to power. The question of importance is what influence K Karunakaran's outfit will have and who he will ally with.
