My Dear Kuttichathan

My Dear Kuttichathan
Directed by	Jijo Punnoose
Produced by	Navodaya Appachan Jose Punnoose
Written by	Raghunath Paleri T.K.Rajeevkumar
Music by	Illayaraja, Anu Malik (hindi version)
Cinematography	Ashok Kumar
Editing by	T. R. Sekar
Distributed by	Navodaya
Release date(s)	1984
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	25 crore

My Dear Kuttichathan (1984) is a 3D Malayalam film and the first 3-D film made in India.^[1] The movie was produced by Maliampurackal Appachan of Navodaya studio in Kerala. The film was dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan in 1997, the film became a big box office hit ^[2][3] Scenes with Urmila Matondkar were added to the film. Furthermore, in 2010, further scenes were added in Tamil with Prakash Raj and Santhanam and was released Chutti Chathan. Overall My Dear Kuttichathan is considered as the all time Blockbuster of Malayalam films. The film twice reached the Blockbuster status in 1984 and 1997 respectively. The new re-mastered with additional footage is releasing on August 25, 2011.

Plot

There are cruel magicians everywhere in the world, and one of them is the Karimbhootham (black magician), who creates a little boy with his magic, who he calls Kuttichathan (Which meaning "Little Ghost" in English and changed as Chhota Chetan in Hindi). Three children, two boys and a girl befriend this Kuttichathan by accident. But they understand that this Chathan is friendly to kids and is a very good friend to enjoy with. Therefore, the girl in the set of those children promise to keep Kuttichathan is a house because of 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, and second, Chathan, beeing a small boy, also drinks a lot. He could drink all that her father drinks, thereby changing her father's attitude. At the same time, the cruel magician understands that the Chathan is mi wants the Kuttichathan to lay hands on a treasure. Even though the magician is the owner of the Kuttichathan, he is burnt and killed by the Chathan in the climax. Chathan turns into a bat and flies away (in the Hindi version Chhota Chetan it is shown that Urmila gets chathan and keeps it with her, scenes of Urmila Motondkar has been re-shot for Hindi version).

The first 3D film in India Navodaya Appachans My Dear Kuttichathan, released again digital 3D, in late August in 2011. 'It is the First film in the World to first release in 3D and then re-release in Digital 3D Version in the successive third time of production.

Cast

• Alummoodan
• Mukesh
• Dalip Tahil - Laxmi's father
• Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair - The Cruel Magician
• Baby Sonia - Laxmi
• Master Suresh - Vijay
• Arvind - Vinod
• Sainuddin - Bartender
• Rajan P. Dev - School Teacher

release

First 3D movie to be produced in India, it used the latest technologies available.

It was re-released in 1997 with some new sequences. This second version introduced DTS sound in Malayalam for the first time. The third version was released in 2011 by integrating latest 3D technologies and also added an extra 30 minutes to the old film.

References

1. ^ "Casting a Magic spell"
2. ^ Social and political study of modern Hindi cinema: past, present, and future perspectives, by Ram Awatar Agnihotri. Commonwealth Publishers, 1990. ISBN 8171690491. page 121.
3. ^ Indian cinema By National Film Development Corporation of India, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division. Published by Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 1986.

External links

• Official website
• My Dear Kuttichathan at the Internet Movie Database