Kalippaattakkaaran: Toy Maker

A young toymaker tries to make sense of the impermanence of life that he has been forced to acknowledge through experiences of separation and death.

Cast

Noel Raphael

as Seba

Kshama Krishna

as Anna

Sunitha

as Radha

Gopika

as Anna (Child)

Goutham

as Seba (Child)

Achu

as Radha (Child)

Rajan Kalabhavan

as Gopalettan

Sreeja

as Sebas Mother

Dileep Gopalakrishnan

as Villager 1

Ayyappa Das

as Villager 2

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