My Dear Kuttichathan is a 3D

3-D film

A 3-D film or S3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception...

 Malayalam film and the first 3-D film

3-D film

A 3-D film or S3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception...

 made in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The movie was produced by Maliampurackal Appachan

Appachan

Maliampurackal Chacko Punnoose, known as Navodaya Appachan is an Indian film producer, director, and entrepreneur. He is mainly involved in Malayalam cinema....

 of Navodaya studio in Kerala.
The film was dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan

Chhota Chetan

Chhota Chetan is a 1998 Hindi movie directed by Jijo Punnoose. It was dubbed from the 1984 Malayalam movie, My Dear Kuttichathan — which was India's first 3-D film — and it went on to become a major box office hit...

in 1997, the film became a big box office hit Scenes with Urmila Matondkar

Urmila Matondkar

Urmila Matondkar is an Indian film actress.Matondkar, who made her screen debut as a child artist in the 1980 film Kalyug, debuted as an adult in Narasimha...

 were added to the film. Furthermore, in 2010, further scenes were added in Tamil

Tamil language

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 with Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj , better known by his stage name Prakash Raj, is a National Award winning actor, director and producer who has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam films. Though he was born in a Tulu family he achieved fame through Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. He got introduced to...

 and Santhanam and was released Chutti Chathan

Chutti Chathan

Chutti Chathan is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language 3D film written and directed by Jijo. The movie is a digitalized sequel version to the 1984 Malayalam hit, first 3D Indian film My Dear Kuttichathan, added with some extra footages. Veteran film maker Rama Narayanan launches this movie through his...

. Overall My Dear Kuttichathan is considered as the all time Blockbuster of Malayalam films. The film twice reached the Blockbuster status in 1984 and 1997 respectively. The new re-mastered with additional footage is releasing on August 25, 2011.

Plot

There are cruel magicians everywhere in the world, and one of them is the Karimbhootham (black magician), who creates a little boy with his magic, who he calls Kuttichathan (Which meaning "Little Ghost" in English and changed as Chhota Chetan in Hindi). Three children, two boys and a girl befriend this Kuttichathan by accident. But they understand that this Chathan is friendly to kids and is a very good friend to enjoy with. Therefore, the girl in the set of those children promise to keep Kuttichathan is a house because of two reasons: one, her father drinks too much, so she wants Chathan, who is a very good magician, to make him himself, as her mother has died, there is no one to control him, and second, Chathan, beeing a small boy, also drinks a lot. He could drink all that her father drinks, thereby changing her father's attitude. At the same time, the cruel magician understands that the Chathan is mi wants the Kuttichathan to lay hands on a treasure. Even though the magician is the owner of the Kuttichathan, he is burnt and killed by the Chathan in the climax. Chathan turns into a bat and flies away (in the Hindi version Chhota Chetan it is shown that Urmila gets chathan and keeps it with her, scenes of Urmila Motondkar has been re-shot for Hindi version).

The first 3D film in India Navodaya Appachans My Dear Kuttichathan, released again digital 3D, in late August in 2011. It is the First film in the World to first release in 3D and then re-release in Digital 3D Version in the successive third time of production.

Cast

• Alummoodan
• Mukesh
  Mukesh (actor)
  Mukesh , born Mukesh Babu, is an Indian film actor and producer known for his work in Malayalam cinema.- Personal Life :...
  
  
• Dalip Tahil
  Dalip Tahil
  Dalip Tahil is an Indian film, television and theatre actor. He did his schooling from the elite Sherwood College in Nainital, India and later graduated from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.-Films:...
  
   - Laxmi's father
• Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair
  Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair
  Sreedharan Nair , popularly known as Kottarakkara and Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, was an Indian film actor in Malayalam movies. He hailed from Kottarakkara in Kollam district of Kerala.Sreedharan Nair won two Kerala state film awards...
  
   - The Cruel Magician
• Baby Sonia - Laxmi
• Master Suresh - Vijay
• Arvind - Vinod
• Sainuddin - Bartender
• Rajan P. Dev
  Rajan P. Dev
  Rajan P Dev was an Indian film and stage actor. He was born in Cherthala in the Alappuzha district of the former state Thiru-Kochi . He had acted in over 140 films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada language films. He was noted for his villain roles laced with a touch of humour...
  
   - School Teacher

release

First 3D movie to be produced in India, it used the latest technologies available.

It was re-released in 1997 with some new sequences. This second version introduced DTS sound in Malayalam for the first time. The third version was released in 2011 by integrating latest 3D technologies and also added an extra 30 minutes to the old film.