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None of this is said smugly – I speak as one who has been implicated himself. Eventually he stops trying to explain the difference. The 2018 Malayalam comedy-drama Sudani from Nigeria centres on the cultural disconnect, slowly yielding to friendship, between manager and player – and in fact this disconnect is written into the film’s very title: Samuel is Nigerian, but some locals reflexively think of Africans as “Sudani”, not realising that Sudan and Nigeria are different countries. But now he is stuck in a small Kerala town, unable to return because his passport is lost and there are ongoing investigations against refugees. You don’t understand.” Samuel goes on to describe the crippling poverty back home, and his efforts to build a better life for his family by coming to India where athletic foreign players are in high demand. “You don’t know my story, manager,” a young African footballer named Samuel haltingly tells his club manager Majeed, “Our life… not like your life. Here are some recommendations, by a viewer who is himself relatively new to this world. The Kerala film industry has given Indian cinema some of its finest works in recent years.