Jithin Issac Thomas’s ‘Attention Please’ is a chilling allegory about caste and cinema, where the screenwriter is equated with the Dalit

Spoilers ahead…

At first, it feels like one of those films where a bunch of bachelors live together. They cook. They booze. They all want or wanted to enter the world of cinema, and they talk nonstop about cinema. They talk about Mammootty and Mohanlal. They talk about Jomon T John and Syam Pushkaran. They talk about how lucky Karthick Naren was, because his father financed his breakthrough film . They talk about the moral policing in . We even get a character whose ringtone is from the shower scene in . Every now and then, we get a little non-cinematic note about a character – sometimes through a cross around the neck or a thread that runs around the torso, or sometimes through lines by someone who cannot get married because he has to marry off his sister first, or sometimes through the man who wants to be a cinematographer but is working as a driver to make ends meet.

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