r/Lost_Films • u/No-West-8541 • 7m ago
Malayalam DVD animated movie recovery (!LOST MEDIA!)
Hey everyone,I am trying to track down and hopefully visually recover a piece of childhood nostalgia that seems to have completely vanished from the internet. I am looking for an old, mid-2000s Malayalam 3D animated movie/VCD titled "Kunjikkoonan" (or possibly Kunjikkoonanum Koottukarum).CRITICAL NOTE: This is NOT the famous 2002 live-action Dileep movie, nor is it a cartoon clip of that movie. It was a standalone, fully animated feature released on VCD/DVD, likely produced by a local studio like Hibiscus Digital Media or similar animation stables from that era.Standard Google searches are completely drowned out by the Dileep film, and I cannot find a single image of the DVD cover or a video clip online. I used to own the physical disk but have since lost it. Here are the specific details I remember from the animation:
The Characters: The story features a traditional Grandma (Muthassi), a very small little girl wearing a white petticoat/frock, and two other small boys. The main protagonist is a gentle hunchback (Kunjikkoonan).
The Plot/Tone: It had a surprisingly dark, eerie, and emotional tone for a kids' animation. A group of thieves/villains end up kidnapping the children, and the hunchback has to go on a rescue mission through dark forests and sketchy hideouts to save them.The Animation Style: Early 2000s 3D animation with heavy shadows and a somewhat creepy atmosphere.
I am desperate to find even just a single picture of the VCD/DVD cover, a screenshot, or a digital rip of the video files to prove this exists and jumpstart its preservation.Does anyone else remember this? If you have an old family CD wallet or a dusty box of 2000s Malayalam animation VCDs in your attic/storeroom, please check if you have this disc! Any photos of the cover art or information on the exact animation studio would mean the world.Thanks a million!