Kozhikodan Explained

Kozhikodan
Birth Name:	K. Appukuttan Nair
Birth Date:	1925
Birth Place:	Chembra, Palghat, Kerala, India
Death Date:	2007
Death Place:	Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Occupation:	Film critic
Language:	Malayalam
Nationality:	Indian

K. Appukuttan Nair (1925–2007), better known as Kozhikodan, was a film critic and writer from Kerala, India. He began writing on films from the early 1950s. He started writing in Mathrubhumi and Chandrika, and later became a regular columnist of Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly along with Cynic and Nadirsha (T. M. P. Nedungadi). Kozhikodan received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Book on Cinema in 1988 for Chalathitraswadanam Engane? and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (Humour) in 2010 for the poetry collection Padachonikku Salam. He died on 20 January 2007.^[1]

'Kozhikodan Smaraka Samiti' has instituted Kozhikodan Puraskaram, an award given annually to the best book on cinema in Malayalam.^[2]

Works

Cinema

• Chalachitra Sallapam (DC Books, 1982)
• Chalachitra Niroopanam (NBS, 1984)
• Chalachitra Jalakom (Mathrubhumi,1985)
• Chalachitraswadanam Engane (PK Brothers, 1988)
• Sathyan Enna Natan (NBS, 1992)
• Malayala Cinema: Ente Premabhajanam (Poorna, 1999)
• Malayala Cinemayile Ekkalatheyum Ettavum Mikacha Pathu Chithrangal (Poorna, 2001)

Essays

• Navollekham (1966)
• Mahanaya Shikari (1973)
• Eshani Puranam (1988)

Humour

• Padachonikk Salaam (1998)

Children's literature

• Vado Njanum Koode Varaam (1986)
• Vadamalliyum Panineer Poovum (1992)
• Mahacharithamala – Two volumes (1983)
• Kuttikalkkoru Sammanam (2000)

Selection

Kozhikodan lists the following ten films as the best ever in Malayalam cinema in one of his books.^[3]

• Swayamvaram (1972)
• Yavanika (1982)
• Sandhya Mayangum Neram (1983)
• Njan Gandharvan (1991)
• Vasthuhara (1991)
• Vembanad (1991)
• Aparahnam (1991)
• Kadavu (1991)
• Thenmavin Kombathu (1994)
• Ormakal Undayirikkanam (1995)

References

1. Web site: Film critic Kozhikodan passes away - KERALA . https://archive.today/20130703114713/http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/21/stories/2007012103070500.htm . dead . 3 July 2013 . . 2007-01-21 . 26 September 2016.
2. Web site: Kozhikkodan award to bhagyalakshmi | "ഭാഗ്യലക്ഷ്മിയ്ക്ക് കോഴിക്കോടന്‍ പുരസ്‌കാരം" . dcbooks.com . 26 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131229044639/http://www.dcbooks.com/kozhikkodan-award-to-bhagyalakshmi.html . 29 December 2013 . dead .
3. Book: Kozhikodan . Kozhikodan . 2001 . മലയാള സിനിമയിലെ എക്കാലത്തെയും മികച്ച പത്ത് ചിത്രങ്ങൾ [Malayala Cinemayile Ekkalatheyum Mikacha Pathu Chithrangal: 10 Best Films of All Time in Malayalam Cinema] . Calicut, India . Poorna Publications .

External links

• C. S. Venkiteswaran remembering Kozhikodan