Kalaripayattu in popular culture
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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]Video games
[edit]Comics
[edit]Music videos
[edit]- Higher by Just Blaze and Baauer, featuring Jay-Z; directed by Nabil Elderkin.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Why Bollywood is crazy about 'Kalaripayattu'". News18. 10 April 2013. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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(.)
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Green Gold, Amazon Prime put Kerala martial art on the map". Archived from the original on 21 May 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "The Way of the Warrior: Kalari, The Indian Way" (Entire Video). YouTube.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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