Athul Narukara Athul Narukara has been working in the field of folk art for past ten years. He is the winner of the Kerala Folklore Academy Award for the year 2019. He also won the Kalabhavan Mani Odappazham Award for the year 2020. He made his debut in Malayalam cinema by singing in Mammootty's Puzhu (2022) and he worked with kaduva film and make a hit song aavodhamano. He has also written two songs and sang three songs for the film Abhayam Thedi, directed by Santosh Sivan, one among the forthcoming Netflix-produced anthology films based on ten short stories by the prominent literary figure MT Vasudevan Nair. He is currently pursuing PhD in Folklore at the University of Calicut.