90 min
Country: India
Language: Malayalam
Director: Govindan Aravindan
Stars: Master Ashokan, Sivasankaran Divakaran and Kottara Gopalkrishnan
Writers: G Aravindan, Kaavalam Narayana Panicker (Story)
Music: Kaavalam Narayana Panicker, MG Radhakrishnan, G Aravindan
The film is a Pied Piper-like figment of Malabar’s folklore about a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty (bogeyman). Kummatty materialises from nature one day to mingle with and weave a spell of carefree abandon around the children of the village. Kummatty travels from place to place and entertain children with dancing, singing and performing magic. At one such performance at a village, Kummatty starts to mingle with and weave a spell of carefree abandon around the children of the village. He turns a group of children into animals. But one boy, who was changed into a dog, is chased away and misses the moment Kummatty changed the children back to their human form. The dog-boy has to wait a year until Kummatty returns to the village to get back his human form. All ends well and Kummatty melts back into nature. (Wikipedia Page)
Aravindan claimed Kummatty to be his personal favourite film.
Kummatty won the State award for best children's film.
Interview: Aravindan on Kummatty
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