Religion is handled with a unique duality. On one hand, you have devout, festival-centric films; on the other, scathing critiques. Ee.Ma.Yau (2018) is a dark comedic epic about a poor Christian fisherman trying to give his father a "decent" funeral in a village obsessed with status. It dissects Latin Catholic rituals with surgical precision. The Great Indian Kitchen (2021) took a wrecking ball to the patriarchy disguised as tradition within Hindu Brahmin households, sparking real-world debates about gender roles in Kerala’s domestic spaces.