Kadal Kadannu Oru Maathukutty

Kadal Kadannu Oru Maathukutty

Produced by	Shaji Nadesan Santhosh Sivan Prithviraj Sukumaran
Written by	Ranjith
Starring	Mammootty Alisha Mohammed Muthumani Meera Nandan Sekhar Menon Nedumudi Venu
Cinematography	Madhu Neelakandan
Edited by	Sandeep Nandakumar
Production company	August Cinema
Distributed by	August Cinema, Tricolor Entertainment
Release date	8 August 2013 (2013-08-08)
Running time	132 minutes^[1]
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Kadal Kadannu Oru Maathukutty^[2] (translation: From Across the Seas, Came Along a Certain Matthew) is a 2013 Malayalam comedy film written and directed by Ranjith and starring Mammootty in the lead role of an Achayan from Kozhencherry, Central Travancore and also in a cameo as himself.^[3]^[4]^[5] The cast includes Nedumudi Venu and Balachandra Menon, Siddique, Harisree Asokan, Suresh Krishna, P. Balachandran, Balachandran Chullikad, Prem Prakash, Meera Nandan, Muthumani, Krishna Prabha and Kaviyoor Ponnamma.^[6]

The film was produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran, Santhosh Sivan, and Shaji Nadesan under the banner of August Cinema, and released on 8 August 2013.

Cast

Mammootty as Kurudanjil Mathew George (Mathukutty) and himself (dual role)
Alisha Mohammed as Rosy
Muthumani as Jansamma
Meera Nandan as Kunjumol
Sekhar Menon as Solaman
Nedumudi Venu as Thomas
Balachandra Menon as Fr.Kurian Vattathara
Harisree Asokan as Rahman
P. Balachandran as Kochunni
Tini Tom as Vidhyadharan
Balachandran Chullikad as Shamsu
Narayanankutty as Ashokan
Thesni Khan as a woman in Mathukkutty's village
Adinadu Sasi as Sugunan
Nandhu as Aanandhan and himself
Siddique as Abraham & himself
Suresh Krishna as Soman and himself
Prem Prakash as Zachariya
Kottayam Nazir as Kunjumon
Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Mariyamma
Krishna Praba as Deepa
Chemban Vinod Jose
Soubin Shahir

Cameos

Mohanlal as himself
Dileep as himself
Jayaram as himself
Jagadish as himself
Idavela Babu as himself
Manoj K. Jayan as himself
Lakshmi Gopalaswamy as herself
Manju Pillai as herself
Bindu Panicker as herself
Mythili as herself

Production, promotion and reception

The film was shot at Ranni, Kozhikode and Kochi in India and Mettmann and Düsseldorf in Germany. Asianet television is reported to have paid ₹5.75 crore for the rights to air the film, which would be a record.^[7]

The film's first teaser was released on 17 July 2013,^[8] second teaser was released on 2 August 2013^[9] and theatrical trailer was released on 3 August 2013.^[10]

Indiaglitz says "Kadal Kadannu Oru Maathukutty is average" and rated it 5.75/10^[11]

References

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