The Malayalam film industry is going through a strange fixation, one involving English titles. A quick leaf through a list of titles of the past 3-4 years suggests that a lot of hard work has gone into creating comic-sounding inanities. It’s almost as if the scriptwriter, director and other assorted intellectuals of the film world were banging their heads to come up with appropriate titles—and they hit upon: Run Baby Run, Hide N’Seek, Banking Hours 10 to 4, Angry Babies in Love, Philips Monkey Pen, Last Bench, Mad Dad, Chewing Gum...well, you get the drift. It’s enough to get the language purists frothing at the mouth. Is the Malayalam language going to the English dogs? You bet! And are the filmi titles aiding this degeneration? Naah, says the ‘progressive’ lot. “Anything goes in a language like Malayalam,” is a popular thought balloon in Mollywood today.