‘Kuzhimandi’, directed by Harold Antony Paulson, is a tale peppered with suspense

Thiruvananthapuram | Friday | 20th July, 2018

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“The meat is hidden in the rice and we find the meat when we remove the rice covering it. A baked dish, it consists of a leg of mutton or chicken and rice that is slow-cooked in the stock. So when a film is called Kuzhimandi, it is bound to whet the appetite. I have used that tale to tell the story of contemporary Kerala,” he says over the phone. In Arab countries, the meat is hung over the tandoor or pit and baked slowly without any oil..