Manimuzhakkam

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| name = Manimuzhakkam

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| director = P. A. Backer

| producer = Cartoonist Thomas

| writer = P. A. Backer (screenplay)
Sarah Thomas (story & dialogues)

| starring = Harikeshan Thampi
Sreenivasan

Cyril P Jacob

| music = Devarajan

| cinematography = Vipindas

| editing = Ravi Kiran

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| released = {{Film date|1976|4|30|df=y}}

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| country = India

| language = Malayalam

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Manimuzhakkam ({{lit|The Tolling of Bells}}) is a 1976 Malayalam-language film directed by P. A. Backer and starring Harikeshan Thampi, Veeran, Johnson, Sankaradi, Saritha, Urmila, Vani, cyril P Jacob, Charulatha, Santhakumari, Sreenivasan and Meena Ganesh. This is the debut film of Sreenivasan.{{Cite book |title=Directory of Indian film-makers and films |last=Narwekar |first=Sanjit |publisher=Flicks Books |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-313-29284-2 |page=21 |author-link=Sanjit Narwekar}}{{cite book|author=Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofi0000raja|url-access=registration|publisher=British Film Institute|year=1999|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofi0000raja/page/50 50]|isbn=978-0-85170-455-5}} The film was scripted by Backer based on the novel Murippaadukal by Sarah Thomas.J.Ajith Kumar (14 September 2004). [https://web.archive.org/web/20050104110900/http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/09/14/stories/2004091401130200.htm "Writing for all of humanity "]. The Hindu. Retrieved 20 January 2013. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Film. The film was shot in black-and-white even though colour films were common during those times (colour cinema became popular in Malayalam cinema only from 1978 to 1980 and good-quality colour films started being shot frequently only from 1983 to 1985).