Director: Aravindan Govindan
Director: Aravindan Govindan
Screenplay: Aravindan Govindan, Kavalam Narayana Panicker
Cinematographer: Shaji N. Karun
Editor: A. Rameshan
Producer: K. Ravindranathan Nair
Production company: General Pictures
Sound: Devadas
Music: Kavalam Narayana Panicker (songs), M.G. Radhakrishnan, Aravindan Govindan
Cast: Ramunni (Kummatty), Master Ashokan, Vilasini Reema, Kothara Gopalakrishnan, Sivasankaran Divakaran, Vakkil, Mothassi, Shankar, teachers and students of the Cheemeni L.P. School
“Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, Film Heritage Foundation and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with General Pictures and the family of Aravindan Govindan.”
Kummatty is a mysterious figure of the folklore of a remote village tucked away in the windswept plains of Malabar where the grass grows tall and the migratory birds fill the sky. For the children of the village, Kummatty is a bogeyman and a magician rolled into one. Generations of children have been told that one day Kummatty will descend on the village to nab mischief-makers.