Aaraattu (2022 film)
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| Directed by | B. Unnikrishnan | 
| Written by | Udaykrishna | 
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| Cinematography | Vijay Ulaganath | 
| Edited by | Shameer Muhammed | 
| Music by | Rahul Raj | 
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| Distributed by | RD Illuminations | 
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Running time  | 166 minutes | 
| Country | India | 
| Language | Malayalam | 
| Budget | ₹~25 crore | 
| Box office | ₹20 crore | 
Aaraattu (lit. 'Sacred dip'; transl. Grand festival) also marketed as Neyyattinkara Gopante Aaraattu (transl. Neyyanttinkara Gopan's Grand Festival), is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film co-produced and directed by B. Unnikrishnan and written by Udaykrishna. The film stars Mohanlal with Shraddha Srinath, Ramachandra Raju, Siddique, Vijayaraghavan, Saikumar, and Nedumudi Venu in supporting roles. Rahul Raj composed the film's original songs and background score.
The film was released on 18 February 2022, where it received mostly mixed reviews from both audience and critics by criticizing the direction and poor storyline leading to its as an underperformer in box office, people later called this film one of Mohanlal's career disastrous performance .