Ponthan Mada
Poster
Directed by	T. V. Chandran
Screenplay by	T. V. Chandran
Story by	C. V. Sreeraman
Produced by	T. Ravindranath
Starring	Mammootty Naseeruddin Shah Sreejaya Laboni Sarkar Janardhanan Maniyanpilla Raju
Cinematography	Venu
Edited by	Venugopal
Music by	Johnson
Distributed by	Mac Release
Release date	10 March 1994
Running time	119 min
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Ponthan Mada is a 1994 Indian Malayalam-language film written and directed by T. V. Chandran. The film stars Mammootty and Naseeruddin Shah. It is based on two short stories, Ponthan Mada and Sheema Thampuran by C. V. Sreeraman. The film won four awards at the National Film Awards including the Best Actor award for Mammotty. It also won the Kerala State Film Award for the best second film. This is the only Malayalam-language film of Naseeruddin Shah.^[1] The film was a commercial success.^[2]

Plot

Set in the 1940s British India, the film is about the extraordinary, uncanny and touching relationship between the so-called low-caste Ponthan Mada and his colonial landlord Sheema Thampuran, who was expelled to British India from England during his youth for supporting the Irish Republican Army. Crossing the class boundaries, the two communicate through Thampuran's window with Mada hanging from an areca palm tree.