India, Jan. 21 -- If your Instagram feed is suddenly looking like a time machine stuck on the Retrica camera filter, you are probably not alone. From grainy selfies to emo phases, the internet has woken up and decided to travel back to 2016. The trend has us doom-scrolling through our embarrassing Dubsmash phase, old squad selfies and unapologetically cringey captions. This nostalgia bait is emotionally damaging, but it's also low-key wholesome. While everyone's browsing through their gallery to post a throwback picture, we're too hopping on the bandwagon, the only way we know: tracing the cinematic timeline of 2016 through South Indian movies that shaped the entire year.

2016 was definitely a cultural reset for the South film industry. ...