 Swayamvaram pioneered the new wave cinema movement in Malayalam cinema . The film did not feature any dance numbers , comedy or melodramatic scenes , which were " usual ingredients " of films at that time , but it introduced viewers to then unknown techniques of film presentation , in which it was not merely used for " story @-@ telling " . It was an inevitable development for Malayalam cinema , as the film focused mainly on cinema rather than its story . The film also introduced film @-@ goers to a new cinematic art through the impulses generated by the film , which in turn were more important than the film itself . The film is also said to have divided Malayalam films into three different categories , " uncompromising art films " , " compromising films " which aimed at commercial success but tried maintaining a good deal of the artistic qualities , and the " commercial films " which purely aimed at box office success . 
