Kothachira is a village in central 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....

, southern 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...

. The village is located in border of Thrissur

Thrissur district

Thrissur is a revenue district of Kerala situated in the central part of that state. Spanning an area of about 3,032 km2, Thrissur district is home to over 10% of Kerala’s population. Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949, with the headquarters at Thrissur City. Thrissur is known as...

 and Palakkad

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...

 districts and is also known as Kothara.

Kothachira is connected to the nearest towns of Pattambi

Pattambi

Pattambi is one of the major town in the Palakkad district of the state of Kerala, South India. The place got its name from Batta Nambi. Once under Nedunganad Samanthas of Chera Kings. Later on Zamoothiri Raja annexed this place to his country and kept under the control of Eralpad Raja, the second...

 and Kunnamkulam

Kunnamkulam

Kunnamkulam is a municipal town situated in the Thrissur District of Kerala in India, spread over an area of 6.96 km2. It is an old commercial town, with a history of more than 300 years, famous for its printing and book binding industry...

 by road and has a Chirakkal Vishnu temple.

Kothachira has been a center of traditional performing arts -- especially Kathakali

Kathakali

Kathakali is a highly stylized classical Indian dance-drama noted for the attractive make-up of characters, elaborate costumes, detailed gestures and well-defined body movements presented in tune with the anchor playback music and complementary percussion...

, the four-century-old classical dance-drama, and Panchavadyam

Panchavadyam

Panchavadyam, literally meaning an orchestra of five instruments, is basically a temple art form that has evolved in Kerala. Of the five instruments, four -- timila, maddalam, ilathalam and idakka -- belong to the percussion category, while the fifth one, kombu, is a wind instrument.Much like any...

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Kalamandalam Gopi

Kalamandalam Gopi

Vadakke Manalath Govindan Nair popularly known as Kalamandalam Gopi is a exponent of the classical dance-drama style known as Kathakali...

, one of Kathakali's all-time great actor-dancers, belongs to Kothachira. Kalamandalam Neelakantan Nambisan

Kalamandalam Neelakantan Nambisan

Kalamandalam Neelakantan Nambisan was a trend-setter Kathakali musician who played a crucial role in remoulding the aesthetics of singing for the classical dance-drama of Kerala, south India...

, who revolutionalised the singing style for Kathakali in the second half of the 20th century, too hailed from this village. It is also the birthplace of Panchavadyam master in elathalam

Elathalam

Elathalam, or Ilathalam, is a metallic musical instrument which resembles a miniature pair of cymbals. This instrument from Kerala in southern India is completely made out of bronze and has two pieces in it....

, Sekharan Nair, and Kathakali artiste Kalamandalam Balasubramanian. Late Kathakali scholar Krishna Varrier and Kathakali musician Kalamandalam Raveendran too hailed from Kothachira.

The village has several Namboodiri manas (mansions of the upper-caste Kerala Brahmins), Kothara Mana being the central one among them. It provided a venue for several art forms -- classical, ritual and folk. Among them used to be Ayyappan Thiyyattu, traditionally performed by a Thiyyadi Nambiar family from the nearby village of Perumpilavu

Perumpilavu

Perumpilavu is a village is located in north of Kunnamkulam in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala in India.It is a trijunction of the towns of Kuttippuram in Malappuram district, Pattambi in Palakkad district and Kunnamkulam in Thrissur District. In the 20th century, it used to be more known...

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K P Vahajudeen, a very famous football player who has played for 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....

State, is from Kothachira.

Kothachira is connected to the nearest towns of Pattambi(Palakkadu) and Kunnamkulam(Trissur).Kothachira is well connected to neighboring cities by bus.