Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha

Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha
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Directed byHariharan
Written byM. T. Vasudevan Nair
Produced byP. V. Gangadharan
Starring
CinematographyK. Ramachandra Babu
Edited byM. S. Mani
Music byBombay Ravi
Production
company
Grihalakshmi Productions
Distributed byKalpaka Films
Release date
  • 14 April 1989 (1989-04-14)
Running time
168 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam
Box office 1.53 crores (re-release)

Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (transl.A northern ballad of valour), credited internationally as A Northern Story of Valor, is a subplot of Vadakkan Pattukal, a medieval ballad from North Malabar and is often regarded as a classic in Malayalam cinema. The film won four National Film Awards including Best Actor (Mammootty), Best Screenplay (Nair), Best Production Design and Best Costume Design (P. Krishnamoorthy) and eight Kerala State Film Awards. The film tells the story in a different way, where the character of Chanthu is a good man in the movie, while the original ballad depicts him as a cheater. The film had a re-release in theaters on 7 February 2025.