ITW Asia

10 things we learned at ITW Asia 2025

08 December 2025
7 minutes
From subsea pinchpoints to cross-border regulatory compliance, there is a lot to focus on for Asian connectivity this year. Here are 10 conclusions from ITW Asia this year.
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The New Wave has returned to the dialectic but with a wider social palette. It includes Dalit, Christian, and Muslim voices that the golden age’s upper-caste, upper-class auteurs often overlooked. It uses genre (horror, noir, black comedy) to deconstruct cultural pieties.

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From the communist rallies of Kannur to the backwaters of Alappuzha, and from the Christian achaens (elders) of Kottayam to the Muslim kaaranis (leaders) of Malappuram, Malayalam cinema is a chronicle of Kerala’s soul. The New Wave has returned to the dialectic

While commercialism took over, these two actors used their stardom to refract specific facets of Keralan identity. Mohanlal perfected the ‘Mallu Everyman’ —the glib, witty, lazy but morally correct Keralite. In films like Kilukkam and Godfather , his body language mirrored the relaxed, back-slapping familiarity of Keralan tea shops. Mammootty, conversely, became the ‘Man of the Soil’ —the stoic, righteous patriarch in Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (a retelling of the Vadakkan Pattukal ballads of North Malabar) or the angry, educated man in Vidheyan . Three cultural shifts are highlighted by this wave: