A great Malayalam poet in the court of Marthanda
Varma
Ottan Thullal is a very popular art form of Kerala. Kunchan Nambiar
is the founder of this art form. Nambiar was a learned man and a
born poet. He was born at Killikkurrisimangalam near the Lakkidi
railway station in Malabar. Later on he went to Ambalapuzha and
lived in the court of the Raja there. It was here that Nambiar wrote
his first Thullal kadha. He used to play ‘Mizhavu’ for
Chkkyar koothu in the temple. Once he happened to doze while
