Pathonpatham Noottandu (transl.Nineteenth century) is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language period drama action film written and directed by Vinayan.[3][4] Set in the 19th century Travancore, the story is based on the life of Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a warrior who fought against social injustices. The film also depicts the story of Nangeli and Kayamkulam Kochunni.[5] The film stars Siju Wilson, Kayadu Lohar, Anoop Menon, Chemban Vinod Jose, Deepti Sati, Poonam Bajwa, Renu Soundar and Senthil Krishna in important roles.[6]
Velayudha Chekavar was a 19th century social reformer and warrior. He was against the Breast Tax, Head tax, Mostache tax and all other injustices shown towards the lower caste. He also supported Nangeli who fought for the right of women to cover their breasts.
Once the king of Travancore calls Velayudha Chekavar to the Durbar (court) of the palace to ask his help to find and capture Kayamkulam Kochunni who stole Lord Vishnu's sacred ornaments from the Padmanabhaswamy Temple. The Naduvazhi ministers and governers couldn't accept this decision as the lower caste were forbidden to touch those ornaments and sends Chekavar back. Kochunni assaulted Paachupanikkar, the Commander-in-chief of Travancore Army and his assistants during their attempt to captive him. The king announces a reward of hundred gold coins to whoever gives information about Kochunni. Meanwhile Kochunni who stole the chest of ornaments and hid it under the ground near the palace, plans to recover it during night of the marriage celebration of the young prince.
Chekavar builds a temple for the lower caste people. He gets arrested for the same on the order of the Diwan as it was forbidden for the lower caste to worship an idol. While in jail, the deputy Commander-in-chief, Padaveedan Nambi and the Naduvazhi, Panikkassery Panikker plans to poison Chekavar to death. Inspector Kannan Kurup, the son of former Commander-in-chief comes in rescue of Chekavar and asks him not to have anything given by the jailors. The queen who knows about his arrest issues order to release him. The Queen then meets him and asks his help to retrieve the stolen ornaments.
On the young prince's marriage evening, Kochunni arrives to retrieve the hidden chest. Kannan Kurup finds him and catches him but lets him free as Kochunni offers half the price of the ornaments. Kochunni and Kannan Kurup tries to sell the chest to Looper, who exports ivory and antiques to England and France. Chekavar arrives there and defeats Kochunni and his team and retrieves the chest of ornaments. Kannan Kurup and Looper escapes. Kochunni gets jailed. Chekavar was offered the honorary ornament, 'Veera Shringhala' and thousand and eight gold coins for his brave act. But as he was from a lower caste king was forbidden to give the reward directly in his hands. Hence he rejected the reward. As an honour for his brave act, king confered him the title 'Panicker' and he became 'Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker'.
Kannan Kurup meets Kochunni in jail and there Kochunni offers him many gold coins which he had stolen earlier. In return he asked him to kill Panicker.
Meanwhile injustice towards the lower caste continued. Women who wore the clothes that covered their ankles were beaten up with hot iron rods. The lords chopped off the noses of women who wore nose rings and chopped off the breasts of the women who covered their breasts. As a protest to all these Panicker proclaimed all women to cover their chests, wear long dothi and nose ring and perform Poothan dance during the Perumpoothan Thullal, a dance ritual. He provide garments and nose rings to all women.
During the ritual, Paniklasseri Kaimal and Padaveedan Nambi came with a team of police inspectors and started to beat up everyone. Panicker and Nangeli went on defending them. Nambi killed Panicker's grandfather, Perumal. In that fury Panicker killed Nambi. During that time Kannan Kurup and Kochunni's assistant, Bava came on horse back and fired at Panicker. Panicker followed them and caught Bava.
The next day in the Durbar (court) of the palace, Diwan and Kaimal requested the king to take necessary action against Panicker for breaking the ritual rules and for killing Nambi. Panicker came before the king and said that he is happy that he killed a traitor. Soon Bava was brought before the court. There he confessed that Nambi and the Naduvazhi Chandrupilla leaked them the information about Paachupanikkar coming to Kayamkulam to captive Kochunni. He also said that they gave a reward of ten thousand gold coins for that information. Bava was jailed. Chandrupilla was sentenced to death for the treason while being a Naduvazhi. He also announced that trail will continue the next day and only then the final verdict be made.
Panicker and his people leaves to Cherthala after his grandfather's cremation. There the idol installation at the temple takes place. Panicker plans to go to Anthapuri. Kaimal and Raman Thambi gives cash to Kandappan and he adds some powder in the tender coconut drink given Panicker. He does the same in all the tender coconut drinks which were taken for the people who travel in boat. Kaimal executes Bava with the help of king's confidente Rudran. People in the boat starts feeling drowsy during their journey. At that time Kaimal and his team attacks Panicker. He kills everyone but bleeds to death.
Later Nangeli was tied and beaten up for wearing dress that covered her chest. Kelu, her father who came for her rescue was also tied and beaten. To save her father's life she agreed to remove her upper cloth and to pay the breast tax. As a protest to this injustice she herself chopped her breasts and presented it before the governers. She soon bleed to death. Seeing her mutilated body, her lover Chirukkandan jumped into her funeral pyre.
The death of Panicker and Nangeli arouse fury and distress among the people. They attacked the authorities and the lords. They destroyed the shops and markets. To save Travancore from becoming a riotous land, the king abolished the unjust taxes and granted women the right to cover their upper body. But all these continued till the early twentieth century.
Cast
Siju Wilson as Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker / Velayudha Chekavar[7]
Director Vinayan announced the movie in March 2020 by making casting call.[37] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the shooting was delayed, beginning in January 2021 after the Puja being held in Kochi.[38] The first schedule of the shooting began in Palakkad and it lasted for about three months. The shooting was temporarily stopped after that, as the state was undergoing the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. On June 27, 2021 Vinayan announced that the editing works of the movie has started as they have shot about eighty percent of the movie. He also added that the shooting will resume after the descent of the second wave.[39] The second and the final schedule of the shooting began on November 3, 2021. By sharing the last shot of the movie, Vinayan and Siju Wilson announced that the shooting of the movie was wrapped up on November 23, 2021.[40] The Dolby Atmos mixing of the film was completed on 1 July 2022.[41] The film was censored with U/A certificate on 20 August 2022.[42]
Shaji Kumar was the cinematographer of the film. Vivek Harshan did the editing work on the film. Pattanam Rasheed handled the make-up and the costumes were arranged by Dhanya Bhalakrishnan. Ajayan Challissery was the art director of the movie. Mafia Sasi, Supreme Sundar and Rajashekar handled the action choreography of the movie. V.C. Praveen and Biju Gopalan are the co-producers of the movie and Badusha is the production controller.[43][44]
Music
The music composition of the film started on June 2020. The songs featured in the film are composed by M. Jayachandran and Rafeeq Ahamed is the lyricist.[45] Santhosh Narayanan has done the background scores of the film.[46] The film marks his debut as a composer in the Malayalam film industry.[47]
Pathonpatham Noottandu Promotion event at Lulu Mall Kochi
The teaser trailer of the film was released on June 3, 2022 through the official social media pages of celebrities including Mammootty and Mohanlal.[50] The trailer of the movie was released on 20 August 2022.[51]
The theatrical trailer of the film was launched in the metaverse as well.[52] This was the first Malayalam movie trailer was released in metaverse.[53]
Release
Theatrical
Initially the film was scheduled theatrical release on 8 September 2022 in Malayalam and dubbed versions of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages simultaneously.[54][55] The film was released in India and GCC on 8 September 2022. As the censoring of the dubbed copies was not completed the film was released only in Malayalam language on 8 September 2022.[56] Later the film was released in dubbed versions Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages.
Home Media
The movie had its OTT premiere through Amazon Prime on November 7, 2022.[57]
Reception
The film generally received positive reviews from critics. The Times of India rated the film 4 out of 5 stars and wrote "A heartfelt historical narrative".[58] onmanorama.com wrote "An exceptional treat from Vinayan, Siju Wilson"[59] The Hindu wrote "A package with some punch[60]
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