Kavalam Narayana Panicker

Kavalam Narayana Panicker is a music director and director in Malayalam and English cinema, credited on Ottaal (2015).

Kavalam Narayana Panikkar (1 May 1928 – 26 June 2016) was an Indian dramatist, theater director, and poet. He wrote over 26 Malayalam plays, many adapted from classical Sanskrit drama and Shakespeare, notably Kalidasa's Vikramorvasiyam (1981, 1996), Shakuntalam (1982), Bhasa's Madhyamavyayogam (1979), Karnabharam (1984, 2001), Uru Bhangam (1988), Swapnavasavadattam, and Dootavakyam (1996). He was the founder – director of theatre troupe, Sopanam, which led to the foundation of Bhashabharati: Centre for Performing Arts, Training and Research, in Trivandrum.

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