Chethallur is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n village situated in Palakkad District

Palakkad district

Palakkad District is one of the 14 districts of the Indian state of Kerala. The city of Palakkad is the district headquarters. Palakkad is bordered on the northwest by the Malappuram District, on the southwest by the Thrissur District and on the east by Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The...

 of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. The population of the village is around 5000. This village attained the media interest recently, because of the construction of the new muriyankanni bridge. This bridge may reduce the calicut- palakkad distance by around 10 km.

Chethallur Sri Panamkurussikavu is one of the famous Bhagavathi

Bhagavathi

Bhagavathi or Bhagavati is the general way people refer to the Hindu goddesses in Kerala, Goa and Maharashtra states of India. It can be used to refer any of the Hindu goddesses like Durga, Kannaki, Parvati, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Kali...

 Temples in Kerala. Panamkurussikavu pooram is the main attraction at Chethallur. More than 40 elephants participate in "Ezhunnallippu" on final day of Pooram

Pooram

Pooram is an annual temple festival held in central Kerala after the summer harvest. Most pooram festivals have at least one ornately decorated elephant being paraded in the procession taken out of the temple precincts...

. The Pooram festival celebrating normally in March or April month of each year. 2007 Pooram will be celebrated on March 30.

Calicut is the nearest airport(100 km) while Angadippuram is the nearest Railway station (20 km).

It is believed that Naranath Bhranthan

Naranath Bhranthan

Naranath Branthan is a character in Malayalam folklore. He was considered to be a divine person, a Mukhta who pretended to be mad. His chief activity consisted of rolling a big stone up a hill and then letting it fall back down. Unlike Sisyphus, he acted on his own volition rather than under the...

was born at Chethallur.

Famous Kathakali dance artists like Pattikkamthodi Ravunnimenon belongs to Chethallur.