'''My Dear Kuttichathan/Chhota
Chetan'''


1984 96’ col Malayalam/Hindi/Tamil
d Jijo pc Navodaya sc Raghunath Paleri
st Navodaya’s script team lyr Bichu Thirumala
c Ashok Kumar m Ilaiyaraja
lp Kottarakkara Sridharan Nair, Alumoodan,
Dalip Tahil, Arvind, Mukesh, Suresh, Sonia


Made by the veteran director Appachan’s son,
this box-office hit is a fantasy film designed to
show off its special effects in India’s first 3-D
movie. Kuttichathan is a mischievous genie
living in an abandoned house. He is
accidentally summoned by a group of children
and appears in the guise of a boy who carries
out all their wishes. This allows the director to
stage scenes of children walking on the ceiling,
speeded-up rickshaw rides and various other
spectacular episodes. Sentiment is catered for
by having the genie cure one child’s father of
alcoholism. The genie eventually changes into
a fox-bat and flies off. A dubbed Hindi version,
Chhota Chetan, was also successful.

[[Film]]