Madhu Muttam Explained

Madhu Muttom
Birth Name:Madhu K Panicker
Birth Date:1 August 1951
Birth Place:Muttom, Haripad, Kerala
Occupation:Script writer
Years Active:1988 - present

Madhu Muttom is an Indian screenwriter from Kerala.

Life

His second film as a screenwriter was Manichitrathazhu (1993). It was remade in Kannada as Apthamitra and in Tamil as Chandramukhi, and finally in Hindi as Bhool Bhulaiyaa.

The story is inspired by a tragedy that happened in an Ezhava tharavad, the Alummoottil meda (an old traditional mansion) located at Muttom (near Haripad), belonging to a central Travancore Channar family, in the 19th century.[1] The story writer Madhu K Panicker or Madhu Muttam himself belongs to this Alummoottil Tharavad.

Madhu Muttom is unmarried and currently lives alone in the village of Muttom at Haripad.[2]

Madhu's first film was Kakkothikkavile Appooppan Thaadikal (1986). The film titled Bharathan is the second venture by the director Anil Das who debuted by Sargavasantham in 1995.

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorNotes
1986Story
1988Story
1993ManichitrathazhuFazilStory
Screenplay
Dialogues
1998FazilDialogues
2007Anil DasStory
Screenplay
Dialogues
2011MahadevanStory
Screenplay
Dialogues

Notes and References

  1. Book: Social Mobility in Kerala: Modernity and Identity in Conflict . Filippo Osella, Caroline . Pluto Press . 2000 . 0-7453-1693-X . 264.
  2. Web site: Archived copy . 21 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222145206/http://www.puzha.com/puzha/cgi-bin/generate-article.cgi?channel=magazine&article_xml=archive%2Finterview_mar1_07.xml&gen_type=printer&work_type=regular . 22 February 2014 . dead .