An edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala with conflict and resistance as its running theme could not have got a better opening than the one it had at the Nishagandhi auditorium in the capital on Friday evening.
The crowd, taken by surprise, stood up and roared in applause as actor Bhavana walked to the stage to make her first appearance in five years, a day after announcing her return to Malayalam cinema following a hiatus.
The actor, who wrote recently on her journey from being a victim to a survivor, thanked the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, the organisers of the festival, for the invitation to the ceremony.
