Malootty
Poster
Directed by	Bharathan
Written by	John Paul
Produced by	Ajitha Hari
Starring	Shamili Jayaram Urvashi
Cinematography	Venu
Edited by	B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan
Music by	Johnson
Release date	February 2, 1990 (February 2, 1990)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Malootty is a 1990 Indian Malayalam-language survival drama film directed by Bharathan, starring Shamili in the title role along with Jayaram and Urvashi. The story is set in the 1980s, in which a girl is trapped in a drill hole and survives after many hours. The title drawings were done by Bharathan's son. Shamili won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist.^[1]

Plot

Five-year-old Malootty is the only child of Raji and Unnikrishnan, who is on her vacation with them. Events take a tragic turn when she visits a vacation home, suddenly falls into a drill hole,^[2] and becomes stuck inside while playing ball with her dog. Unnikrishnan struggles to save her. It takes a few hours to do so.

Cast

• Baby Shamili as Malootty
• Jayaram as Unnikrishnan
• Urvashi as Raji
• K.P.A.C. Lalitha as Saraswathi
• Nedumudi Venu as Raghavan
• Innocent as Sankaran
• Devan as Wilson Cherian
• Priya (voice over by Valsamma)
• Sreenath
• Kunjandi
• K.P.A.C.Ramachandran Nair as Doctor (voice over by Hari)

Soundtrack