Originally Posted by
Perumthachan
rather than ikka actually being one of the 18 chaaver, would prefer ikka to be a valluvanaadan panikkar who runs a kalari that sends 18 of his students every year to kill the zamorin at the mamaankam... unknown to many, he has a personal grudge against zamorin; sold to arab merchants at young age or something like that... comes back at kodungallur port one day in hyder ali's ship... final fight, when his student chavers die falling victims to british treachery, ikka steps in for the climax and does the deed thereby helping tipu sultan to end the zamorin rule and abolish the mamaanakam festival...