Kozhikodan

{{short description|Indian film critic}}

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| birth_name = K. Appukuttan Nair

| birth_date = 1925

| birth_place = Chembra, Palghat, Kerala, India

| death_date = 2007

| death_place = Kozhikode, Kerala, India

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K. Appukuttan Nair (1925–2007), better known as Kozhikodan, was a film critic and writer from Kerala, India. He began writing on films from the early 1950s. He started writing in Mathrubhumi and Chandrika, and later became a regular columnist of Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly along with Cynic and Nadirsha (T. M. P. Nedungadi). Kozhikodan received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Book on Cinema in 1988 for Chalathitraswadanam Engane? and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (Humour) in 2010 for the poetry collection Padachonikku Salam. He died on 20 January 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/21/stories/2007012103070500.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130703114713/http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/21/stories/2007012103070500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 July 2013 |work=The Hindu |title=Film critic Kozhikodan passes away - KERALA |date=2007-01-21 |access-date=26 September 2016}}

'Kozhikodan Smaraka Samiti' has instituted Kozhikodan Puraskaram, an award given annually to the best book on cinema in Malayalam.{{cite web |url=http://www.dcbooks.com/kozhikkodan-award-to-bhagyalakshmi.html |publisher=dcbooks.com |title=Kozhikkodan award to bhagyalakshmi | "ഭാഗ്യലക്ഷ്മിയ്ക്ക് കോഴിക്കോടന്‍ പുരസ്‌കാരം" |access-date=26 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229044639/http://www.dcbooks.com/kozhikkodan-award-to-bhagyalakshmi.html |archive-date=29 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}