Kalaripayattu in popular culture

Kalaripayattu is an Indian martial art developed in present-day Kerala in the southwestern coast of the Indian subcontinent. It is featured in several films, television, literature, video games, comics and other media.^[1]

Films

Year	Title	Language
1961	Unniyarcha	Malayalam
1962	Palattu Koman
1964	Thacholi Othenan
1972	Aromalunni
1974	Thacholi Marumakan Chanthu
1977	Kannappanunni
1978	Thacholi Ambu
	Ondanondu Kaladalli	Kannada
1977	Maamaankam	Malayalam
1982	Padayottam
1989	Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha
1990	Kadathanadan Ambadi
1992	Yoddha
1995	Thacholi Varghese Chekavar
1996	Indian	Tamil
2001	Asoka	Hindi
2002	Puthooram Puthri Unniyarcha	Malayalam
2005	The Myth[2]	Chinese
2007	The Last Legion	English
2010	Mansara	Telugu
2011	7aum Arivu	Tamil
	Urumi	Malayalam
2012	Arjun: The Warrior Prince[3]	Hindi
2013	Commando
2016	Baaghi
	Veeram	Malayalam-Hindi-English
2019	Junglee	Hindi
	Mamangam	Malayalam
	Athiran
2023	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse[4]	English

Television

Year	Title	Network	Language	Notes
2004	Seven Deadly Arts with Akshay Kumar	National Geographic	English	Non-fiction miniseries
2006	Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple[5]	TV Tokyo	Japanese	Japanese manga series
2013–2019	Steven Universe[5]	Cartoon Network	English	American series
2017–2018	Mahakali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai	Colors TV	Hindi
2017–2018	Kalari Kids[6]	Amazon Prime Video	English, Hindi

Documentaries

• The Way of the Warrior on BBC^[7]

Video games

• Ashwathama — The Immortal^[5]
• Soul Edge^[5]
• Death Battle^[5]
• Tekken^[5]

Comics

• Agari (2019), Japanese manga.^[8]
• Odayan^[9]
• Odayan II – Yuddham^[9]
• Alita - Battle Angele

Music videos

• Higher by Just Blaze and Baauer, featuring Jay-Z; directed by Nabil Elderkin.

See also

• List of martial arts films
• Martial arts film