Kummatty
Beautifully photographed amid the lush pastoral landscapes of southern India’s Kerala region, this enchanting child’s-eye fable conjures a folkloric world in which the magical exists side by side with the everyday. When Kummatty, a kind of shamanic bogeyman, arrives in a small village, he captivates the children with his music and colorful masks—until he casts a spell that has unexpected consequences for one boy. Bursting with exuberant songs and children’s chants, this fantasy from G. Aravindan, a pioneer of India’s art-house “parallel cinema” movement, is a treasure of imagination and entrancing visual lyricism.
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Cast
- Ambalappuzha Ramunni
- Kummatty
- Ashok Unnikrishnan
- Chindan
- Sivasankaran
- Village doctor
- Kothara Gopalkrishnan
- Chindan's father
- Vilasini
- Chindan's mother
- Reema
- Young woman with dogs
- Divakaran Vakkil
- Young woman’s parents
- Mrs. Divakaran
- Young woman’s parents
- Manakkatt Manikkam
- Grandmother
- Padmanabhan
- Children
- Sasi
- Murali
- Sreevalsan
- Shailaja
- Anitha
- Jayashree
- Damodaran
- Rajendran
Credits
- Director
- G. Aravindan
- Produced by
- K. Ravindranathan Nair
- Screenplay by
- G. Aravindan
- Screenplay by
- Kavalam Narayana Panicker
- Director of photography
- Shaji N. Karun
- Sound
- Devadas
- Editor
- A. Rameshan
- Art direction
- Namboodiri
- Music
- Kavalam Narayana Panicker
- Music
- M. G. Radhakrishnan
- Music
- G. Aravindan
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A scene from Kummatty
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