Many folks ask me if I had researched the hotel industry, food preparation etc but the truth is that the core of my research was around Sufism, which celebrates food, music, dance, creativity, art, romance and finds the divine in all such aspects of life. I started to read up about the Arab past and for some reason ended up with Sufi philosophy. I began to think of the peculiarity of the local culture especially with food and hospitality. As she and the rest of the family showered me with affection as only Kozhikodans truly can.
Soon after I discovered I was pregnant, I moved to Calicut to be with my mother. Ustad Hotel is a movie that has to be written by someone who loves Calicut how did the whole idea of writing a story like this begin? DNA gets chatty with this pretty scriptwriter and director in an exclusive tête-à-tête, where we talk about her Calicut connections, the Malabari in her and Ustad Hotel… With a fresh perspective on Malabari culture and refreshing and more youthful representation, Ustad Hotel, her most celebrated film till date is still running at theatres in the city, one month after its release. Anjali Menon can be credited with having redefined cinema writing in Malayalam cinema, today.
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