What comes to your mind if you think of Resul Pookutty ? He makes Malayalees proud. Oh yeah. Yes, he was aspirational.
So he left Kerala, worked from Bombay to achieve the success he deserved. My question is would he or any one else achieve the scale of his success in a change resistant society that we have.
Big names in the filmdom mostly live in Chennai, both Mohanlal and Mammootty did that too to get to where they are today. Is it about networking or a sheer lack of local initiative of national and international appeal ?
Yes, he chose an alternate career and sure his scale of success is very huge. And then they make it big, Keralites adopt them. They even trace a malayalee gene in any one who makes it big outside Kerala.
When will Kerala look inward and create an ecosystem for such success stories.
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I agree with you. Kerala doesnt give opportunity. It is because the generations before us have not worked at creating those opportunities in the state.
Its definitely the most obvious of inferences to make but I would beg to differ. There are some very good success stories out of Kerala too. Again, expecting others to create an opportunity is like plagiarism. I would rather put it simply like this – “Keralites prefer to work harder away from Kerala”. Why one may ask.. That is a bigger discussion point.