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Mallanum Mathevanum

1976 film by Kunchacko

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ6744062 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mallanum Mathevanum is a 1976 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed and produced by Kunchacko. The film stars Prem Nazir, KP Ummer, Sheela, Adoor Bhasi, Jayan and Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair in the lead roles. The film has musical score by K. Raghavan and Kumarakam Rajappan.

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Soundtrack

The music was composed by K. Raghavan and Kumarakam Rajappan.

Editorial summary

“Mallanum Mathevanum” enters the record as 1976 film by Kunchacko. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mallanum, Mathevanum and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mallanum, Mathevanum and film.
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“Mallanum Mathevanum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mallanum, Mathevanum and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6744062. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mallanum Mathevanum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.