“We gave them a task to prepare as many questions as possible about Kayamkulam Kochunni, about Vavvakavu and Evoor villages, books written about him, his purpose, etc. The team adopted a unique way of going about its research. We wanted answers to questions such as why Janaki loved Kochunni and why Thangal refused to teach him kalari,” explains the director. I wanted to scale it up as it’s a film set in the 1830s and so for the better part of almost two years, we did the research of recreating that era. “The stories though were told in a small canvas and would hardly have made for a 30-minute movie. When the idea germinated, the available material on Kochunni was limited Amar Chitra Katha and Kottarathil Sankunni’s Aithihyamala were the only readily available sources of information.
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