A lush animated Kerala backwater landscape in Thottumkara.

Chapter 03

The World of Thottumkara

A fictional village in 1990s Kerala, shaped by backwaters, laterite lanes, monsoon green and golden evenings.

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01Place and time

Culturally specific. Instantly familiar.

The series brings back the warmth, mischief and nostalgia of village life without sanding Kerala down into a generic backdrop.

01

Thottumkara

A fictional Kerala village and the home of Kuttappan’s stories.

02

The 1990s

The era that gives the series its sense of memory and village nostalgia.

03

Backwater Kerala

Water, laterite lanes, monsoon green and brass-warm light shape the visual world.

Scene 01 · The lane

Every shortcut has
a longer story.

Thottumkara turns daily village life into cinematic comedy.

The story in Malayalam

തോട്ടുംകര എന്ന 1990കളിലെ കേരള ഗ്രാമത്തിൽ ജീവിക്കുന്ന കുട്ടപ്പന്റെയും കൂട്ടുകാരുടെയും തമാശ നിറഞ്ഞ കഥകൾ. നാടൻ ഗ്രാമജീവിതത്തിന്റെ ഓർമ്മകളും ചിരിയും ഒരുമിച്ച് — മലയാളി കുടുംബങ്ങൾക്കായി.
A golden-hour football scene in Thottumkara.

A story from Kerala. A story for the world.

Visit the village
every two weeks.

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