Malayalam

I remember clearly the picture of a young girl on a swing.

So she's swinging, and the comments would be filled with people saying what is a sexual act that they would like to do to her, and very violent stuff, okay? So when we flagged at that time, I remember Facebook saying that, "Oh, this is in Malayalam, so we don't have moderators who can understand the language." That used to be their excuse at that time, that when it comes to languages in India, if it's English we can deal with it, Hindi to some extent, but we can't do in other languages, so they let this flourish, and I think now that has reduced.

Now we come to AI, where they are using that AI to bring down posts.

Like, when the government of India asks for certain posts be brought down, they are using AI to, you know, look at what has to be taken down, right? So it's not like they don't know how to use it, but they don't want to.

I feel "we are not able to moderate" is an excuse, and they keep giving these loopholes.

It is just that their language changes.

When once it was s- that, "Oh, we can't control what people write in Malayalam or Tamil," today it's that AI can't do everything.

Well, to us, they did not actually put up language as an excuse, though we did came a- come across a report which said that their language moderation, uh, is quite abysmal even now, that they have, uh, they need to invest more.

Actually he was playing for stage musicals, I think.

Then he became a arranger, uh, conductor for all the Malayalam movies.

Then he went and did his own music stuff.

He bought the synthesizers and all that stuff which when, when he passed away, became my toys to learn-

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in Malayalam, and Hindi movies.

Yeah.

Five Syrian crew on the ship spoke Arabic.

Four Indian sailors spoke languages including Malayalam, Hindi, and English.

This is the very bottom of the stairwell.

Stay here.

I don't see that happening at all in any cinema.

Malayalam does it, but Malayalam does it in a very different way than this particular syntax of movie making.

And in this particular syntax, this is perhaps... a standalone film like i can't think of anything at least in the recent say like five to ten years where a lead male character's inner vulnerability is being explored in this way so i thought that was really great

what about you sujoy what's what's a positive or toxic

No, Amrita, you watched something amazing.

Let's do that first.

Yeah, I watched the new Onam release from the Malayalam film industry, which is Bethlehem Kudumba Unit.

And it is...