Kalaripayattu in popular culture

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Kalaripayattu is an Indian martial art developed in present-day Kerala in the southwestern coast of the Indian subcontinent. It is featured in several films, television, literature, video games, comics and other media.[1]

Films

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Year Title Language
1961 Unniyarcha Malayalam
1962 Palattu Koman Malayalam
1964 Thacholi Othenan Malayalam
1972 Aromalunni Malayalam
1974 Thacholi Marumakan Chanthu Malayalam
1977 Kannappanunni Malayalam
1978 Thacholi Ambu Malayalam
1978 Ondanondu Kaladalli Kannada
1977 Maamaankam Malayalam
1982 Padayottam Malayalam
1989 Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha Malayalam
1990 Kadathanadan Ambadi Malayalam
1992 Yoddha Malayalam
1995 Thacholi Varghese Chekavar Malayalam
1996 Indian Tamil
2001 Asoka Hindi
2002 Puthooram Puthri Unniyarcha Malayalam
2005 The Myth[2] Chinese
2007 The Last Legion English
2010 Mansara Telugu
2011 7aum Arivu Tamil
2011 Urumi Malayalam
2012 Arjun: The Warrior Prince[3] Hindi
2013 Commando Hindi
2016 Baaghi Hindi
2016 Veeram Malayalam-Hindi-English
2019 Junglee Hindi
2019 Mamangam Malayalam
2019 Athiran Malayalam
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse[4] English

Television

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Year Title Network Language Notes
2004 Seven Deadly Arts with Akshay Kumar National Geographic English Non-fiction miniseries
2006 Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple[5] TV Tokyo Japanese Japanese manga series
2013–2019 Steven Universe[5] Cartoon Network English American series
2017–2018 Mahakali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai Colors TV Hindi
2017–2018 Kalari Kids[6] Amazon Prime Video English, Hindi

Documentaries

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Video games

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Comics

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  • Agari (2019), Japanese manga.[8]
  • Odayan[9]
  • Odayan II – Yuddham[9]
  • Alita - Battle Angele

Music videos

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Why Bollywood is crazy about 'Kalaripayattu'". News18. 10 April 2013. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  2. ^ Iype, George (7 June 2005). "Jackie Chan and the art of Kalaripayattu". Rediff. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  3. ^ Chaudhri, Arnab (16 May 2012). "Arjun: The Warrior Prince" (Interview). Interviewed by Telegraph Team. Kolkata: The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023. For the action, we did a two-week workshop with a Kalaripayattu troupe from Kerala and a Thang-Ta troupe from Manipur — both of which represent very diverse martial art forms. We put them together on a mountaintop for two weeks and made them fight each other. What we got were results that I wouldn't even hope to achieve if I was using live-action actors.
  4. ^ Kondo, Nick [@NickTyson] (5 June 2023). "One of the great creative challenges for #AcrossTheSpiderVerse was giving 100s of different Spiders unique motion signatures" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 June 2023 – via Twitter. For Pavitr, we looked to one of the oldest known martial arts, Kalaripayattu(.)
  5. ^ a b c d e f Nair, Shreejaya (12 September 2015). "Comics go the Kalari way". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Green Gold, Amazon Prime put Kerala martial art on the map". Archived from the original on 21 May 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  7. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "The Way of the Warrior: Kalari, The Indian Way" (Entire Video). YouTube.
  8. ^ TNN (25 May 2019). "Kalaripayattu warrior Ravi to be the first Indian character in Manga comic". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  9. ^ a b Chhibber, Mini Anthikad (24 August 2014). "An equal music". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.