Thattassery Koottam

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Thattassery Koottam
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnoop Padmanaban
Written bySanthosh Echikkanam
Produced by Dileep
Starring
Production
company
Graand Production
Release date
  • 11 November 2022 (2022-11-11)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Thattassery Koottam is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film written by Santosh Echikkanam, directed by Anoop Padmanaban and produced by Dileep under the banner of Graand Production. The film features Arjun Ashokan, Ganapathi S. Poduval, Aneesh Gopal, Priyamvada Krishnan, Vijayaraghavan in the lead roles. [1]

Contents

Cast

Production

The First look of the film was released in January 2020 [2] .Later the trailer was released [3]

Release

The Film was released on 11 November 2022 in theatres and started digital stream ZEE5 from 13 January 2023. [4]

Reception

V Vinod Nair critic of The Times of India stated that "Overall a light-hearted, time-pass movie." and gave 3 stars out of 5 [5] .Saraswathy Nagarajan critic of The Hindu wrote that "Arjun Ashokan comes good, but the all-too-familiar tropes disappoint" [6] .Sanjith Sidhardhan critic of OTTplay gave 2.5 rating out of 5 and wrote that " Arjun Ashokan's Thattassery Koottam would have been a decent watch, had it the same tempo and mood that made its first half fun. The second half is all over the place." [7]

A critic from Mathrubhumi noted that "the slow moving first half, the pace and mood of the story changes as we reach the second half." [8]

Critic from The Indian Express [9] and Manorama Online [10] gave mixed reviews.

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