KOCHI: In a recent promotional interview for his upcoming film "Khalb," producer and actor Vijay Babu expressed concerns over the impact of foreign language films on the Malayalam cinema. He took to Facebook to share his views stating that Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films often unknown to the audience, are being released by major distributors in Kerala.

Full version of Vijay Babu's Facebook post

Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films that no one knows about are released here by major distributors. When such distributors put pressure on the theaters by showing upcoming big money-grabbing foreign language films and play these films, where and when can we show Malayalam films.

When it comes to this kind of films that no one knows about, they get more screens and more shows. Malayalam films with good content will be left behind. If this happens, Malayalam cinema will lose its identity in the future. Instead only Pan Indian, Pan South, Bollywood and some big Malayalam movies will be released here. The rest of the Malayalam films can be released at the rate of ten per week during the rainy season. The film Khalb will play tomorrow after overcoming this crisis.

But there is a request to the film industry bodies. Wake up, it's scary here. Please pay attention. For the first time in the history of Malayalam cinema, a single original Malayalam film was released for Christmas.