My Dear Kuttichathan
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| Directed by | Jijo Punnoose |
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Navodaya Appachan Jose Punnoose |
| Written by |
Raghunath Paleri T.K. Rajeev Kumar |
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Dalip Tahil Sonia Master Aravind Master Mukesh Surya Kiran Rajan P. Dev Jagathi Sreekumar Jagadish |
| Music by |
Ilaiyaraaja Kaithapram (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Ashok Kumar |
| Edited by | T. R. Sekar |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | 1 crore |
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| Released | 1984 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
My Dear Kuttichathan (Malayalam:മൈ ഡിയർ കുട്ടിച്ചാത്തൻ; English: My Dear Little Ghost) is a 1984 Indian Malayalam fantasy film directed by Jijo Punnoose making his directorial debut. The film was produced by his father Navodaya Appachan under Navodaya studio in Kerala. This was the first Indian film to be filmed in 3D.
The film revolves around a little ghost who is under the spell of an evil sorcerer however it gets released by three children and befriends them. The film's script was written by Raghunath Paleri and T. K. Rajeevkumar. The film's soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film's cinematography and editing was done by Ashok Kumar and T. R. Sekar respectively.
Originally filmed in Malayalam, a re-edited version was released in 1997 which makes it the first DTS movie in Malayalam and also was dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan in 1997 and became a big box office hit. Scenes with Urmila Matondkar were added. In 2010, further scenes were added in Tamil with Prakash Raj and Santhanam and was released as Chutti Chathan. A new re-mastered version with additional footage released on 25 August 2011. My Dear Kuttichathan went on to become the Highest Grossing Malayalam Film of all time grossing more than 1.5 Crs at Boxoffice.
The character 'Kuttichathan' is formed on the basis of the specialties of a deity popularly known as 'Chathan' who is being worshiped mainly in the south Indian state, Kerala. There are cruel magicians everywhere in the world. One of them is the Karimbhootham (black magician), who enslaved an invisible spirit with his magic spells, whom he calls Kuttichathan ("Little Ghost" in English and "Chhota Chetan" in Hindi). Two boys and a girl befriend Kuttichathan by accident and release him from the grip of the magician.
On the way Kuttichathan meets Ashish, a member of the police, who is after Karimbhootham.
They understand that this Chathan is friendly to kids and is a very good friend. Therefore, the girl promises to keep Kuttichathan in a house for two reasons: one, her father drinks too much, so she wants Chathan, who is a very good magician, to make him himself, as her mother has died, there is no one to control him; second, Chathan, being a small boy, also drinks a lot. He could drink all that her father drinks, thereby changing her father's attitude.
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