Then there is the "Green" (Gulf migration). Since the 1970s, the "Gulfan" (Non-Resident Keralite) has been a archetype—the man who goes to Dubai, Saudi, or Qatar to send back foreign currency, returning with a gold chain and a confused sense of identity. Films like Varane Avashyamund and the classic Mrigaya explore the loneliness and alienation of this diaspora. The tension between the radical left-wing ideology of the land and the capitalist consumerism fueled by Gulf money is the unresolved dialectic that drives the plot of hundreds of Malayalam films.