India, Sept. 9 -- Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra is a reimagination of the tale of Kalliyankattu Neeli, who was depicted as a vengeful female spirit in Malayalam folklore. But Dominic Arun's latest Malayalam film Lokah, portrays Neeli as kind-hearted, and not as the bloodthirsty Yaskshi or vampire. Long before Lokah hit our screens, we had seen another acclaimed movie, starring Mammootty, which also subverted a popular folklore. Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha is this film, which was penned by the legendary MT Vasudevan Nair.

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Malayalam folklore has long since been fodder to our c...