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more-inFilmmaker Kumar Shahani has said that it is time for filmmakers to focus on the diasporic experience across the world given the changes in the contemporary political landscape across the grobe. Syed Ibrahim, director, Goethe–Zentrum Trivandrum, said that in contemporary times diaspora studies could not but look at exile and refugee experience as they manifest in the concept of the fleeing crowds. Rajasekharan said there is need to redefine what constitutes a diasporic literary imagination given the fact that Malayalis across history have traversed multiple diasporic trajectories. Harilal, member, State Planning Board, pointed out that the Malayali diaspora had played a vital role in the economic makeup of Malayali society in the past and the present. Film critic C.
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Venkiteswaran discussed how diasporic flows across the world find representations and imaginations in the medium of cinema..