Kudallurinte Ormapusthakam

All about Kudallur- thats the best description this book can ever have, because each and evey page of this book says something deep and amazing on Kudallur. Like the name suggests, its a look back to the ways through which Kudallur came through. And also remembering the great icons whose achievements and efforts were precious to the village. Social, cultural, natural and historic aspects of the village are well covered in this book. The book is released as a part of Government U.P.School Silver Jubilee Celebrations.

The major highlight of the book is N.M.Namboodiri's study on Kudallur. He describes the formation of Kudallur. His attempt reveals the historic progression of lot of villages including Kudallur, better called 'Vayyavinaadu'. The article 'Ee Manohara Theerath', written by Achuthan Kudallur brings back his childhood memories in Kudallur. Alankod Leelakrishnan, express his views on Kudallur through the article 'Amaranmarude Gramathil' which focuses on how M.T. books and Kudallur is closely related. He calls Kudallur, a village where the people lives through stories and memories. His article also goes deep through myths connected to the village.

Kudallur's own writer Vaseerali Kudallur also comes up with his memories on the village. 'Oru Kudallur Veeragadha', a walk to Madath Thekkepattu house by T.V.M. Ali brings out more on Kudallur's illustious son writer M.T.Vasudevan Nair and his home. M.T. Ravindran also appears with his words on Madath Thekkepattu house. M.T.N.Nair, brother of M.T.Vasudevan Nair translates a Khaleel Gibran story named 'Perunnal Thalennu'.

P.Surendran makes a close watch and study on Achuthan Kudallur's paintings and explains what makes Achuthan Kudallur different in the artistic world. Dr.Rajan Chungath enters the world of 'Parayipetta Panthirukulam' and presents the readers more details about Thrithala.

The book also takes a look onto the folklore of the village. Mehaboob Kudallur brings out various heard and unheard stories on myths connected to the village. Study on artistic tradition of Kudallur by M.Shivashankaran and feature on traditional arts and festivals by M.Suresh Babu adds more to the folklore. An article on Kudallur's famous game 'Pakidakali' described by Balettan, gives a brief idea on the rules and styles of the game.

The book had succeeded in extracting Kudallur life to a great extent. It does a deep study on Kudallur's diversity in flora and fauna. Butterflies seen on the banks of Nila, birds, fishes and more adds a different dimension to the book. Progression of Nila, agricultural background, surrounding ranges of hills and various water resources are the distinct subjects that comes in between the pages. More interesting facts on roads, buses, electricity, cinema, telephone, radio and library also finds place in the book. The last pages of this book concentrates on articles written by teachers and students of Government U.P.School, Kudallur. Also a brief report on school's silver jubilee celebrations is brought out. Perhaps the only negative point marked with the book is that one or two articles missed focus on Kudallur.

Efforts behind 'Kudallurinte Ormapusthakam' is highly appreciable since the book covers almost culture and society of Kudallur. Also the book had to face lot of challenges regarding the funds and is only for private distribution. Definitely Kudallur people could be proud of this book at all times. The book was relaesd during, the 50 years celebration of Naalukettu held at Thrissur. Kudallur.com is thankful to this book to a great extend because of the fact that the book had been a big support in post web development.
(The description is from www.kudallur.com)

Kudallur: Curtain falls at Sridhar

New Year came. There will be no more show at Sridhar Talkies, Kudallur as the management decided to close it. Perhaps, it will open for the people as a rural auditorium, locally known as kalyanamandapam. Sridhar was the cinema hall for the rural film lovers. Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and English films were screened here. Its roof is tar sheet; floor is of rough cement patches.
People from the area came to Sridhar. It was a centre for daily workers to cheer with. The most interesting thing is the presences of families come to see a film sitting together. Head-load workers, especially the sand excavating ones came to Sridhar along with their families. The Tamil people who arrived for telecom works too were there. The cinema hall expects families at night show starting at 6.30pm. Matinee would be the get together of teenagers and youngsters. The late night show, known as ‘Second show’, starts at 10.30pm is fully enjoyed by youngsters.
As time passed, transport facilities improved and the village started to go out for watching films. Naturally, Sridhar became the second option for them. But the management of the hall tried to modernize it by implementing advanced Satellite Cinema. But they failed, as many think, to follow up the modernizing programme.
But many of villagers still remember the first film in their life seen at a cinema hall.