Mamangam (2019) on Netflix
NR20192h 37mActionDramaHistoryWar
Warriors from Valluvanad travel to the Mamangam festival to bring down the Zamorin. In 1695, Chandroth Panikkar and twelve-year-old Chanthunni set out as Chavers.
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- Netflix2.6/5
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Plot summary
For close to three centuries, Valluvakonathiri has sent warriors known as Chavers to the Mamangam festival at Tirunavaya on the banks of the Bharathappuzha, where they try to bring down the Zamorin. The Zamorin's thirty thousand men usually kill them before they can reach the Nilapaduthara where he sits. In 1695, two from the Chandroth family, Chandroth Panikkar and the twelve-year-old Chanthunni, a master of Kalaripayattu, receive visions from Thirumanthankunnu Devi telling them to go. With the Zamorin's soldiers hunting Chaverukal, the pair finish the customs at their house, take leave of their relatives and slip away, guided by a man named Kungan. Meanwhile Thalachennor, the Zamorin's right-hand man, comes to a brothel kept by the dancer Unnimaya to look into the death of Zamar Koya, a foreigner who mattered to the Zamorin.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mamangam (2019)
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- Mamangam's old-era sets were built on 18 acres in Maradu by close to a thousand labourers for around ₹5 crore, and the war sequence was shot on 20 acres in Nettoor, built by about 2,000 workers at ₹10 crore with 10 tonnes of steel and 2,000 cubic metres of wood.
- By May 2019 the film had completed 80 days of a planned 120-day shoot; its climax sequence alone was shot over more than 40 days, and the final days of production in Nettoor had scenes with nearly 3,000 artistes, dozens of elephants and horses.
- Principal photography on Mamangam began in February 2018 and completed its first schedule the same month; after M. Padmakumar was hired as director in January 2019, the film's shooting restarted from scratch.
- Dhruvan was hired for a major role in Mamangam but was replaced by Unni Mukundan, who played Chandroth Paniker; Neeraj Madhav had also been hired for a major role.
