Kozhikodan
Indian writer
K. Appukuttan Nair (1925–2007), better known as Kozhikodan, was a film critic and writer from Kerala, India. He began writing on films from the early 1950s. He started writing in Mathrubhumi and Chandrika, and later became a regular columnist of Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly along with Cynic and Nadirsha (T. M. P. Nedungadi). Kozhikodan received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Book on Cinema in 1988 for Chalathitraswadanam Engane? and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (Humour) in 2010 for the poetry collection Padachonikku Salam. He died on 20 January 2007.
'Kozhikodan Smaraka Samiti' has instituted Kozhikodan Puraskaram, an award given annually to the best book on cinema in Malayalam.
Works
Cinema
Chalachitra Sallapam (DC Books, 1982)
Chalachitra Niroopanam (NBS, 1984)
Chalachitra Jalakom (Mathrubhumi,1985)
Chalachitraswadanam Engane (PK Brothers, 1988)
Sathyan Enna Natan (NBS, 1992)
Malayala Cinema: Ente Premabhajanam (Poorna, 1999)
Malayala Cinemayile Ekkalatheyum Ettavum Mikacha Pathu Chithrangal (Poorna, 2001)
Essays
Navollekham (1966)
Mahanaya Shikari (1973)
Eshani Puranam (1988)
Humour
Padachonikk Salaam (1998)
Children's literature
Vado Njanum Koode Varaam (1986)
Vadamalliyum Panineer Poovum (1992)
Mahacharithamala – Two volumes (1983)
Kuttikalkkoru Sammanam (2000)
Selection
Kozhikodan lists the following ten films as the best ever in Malayalam cinema in one of his books.
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