| Karikku | ||||||||||
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 Karikku Logo since August 2020 | ||||||||||
| Origin | 1 April 2018 in Kochi, Kerala, India | |||||||||
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| Created by | Nikhil Prasad | |||||||||
| Years active | 2018–present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 9 Million (August 2023) | |||||||||
| Total views | 1.48 Billion (May 2023) | |||||||||
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Karikku (transl. Tender Coconut) is an Indian YouTube Channel in Malayalam, founded by Nikhil Prasad in 2018. The YouTube Channel gained popularity with their first Web series titled "Thera Para". Karikku has different business verticals including Fliq (multi genre web series space), Tuned (indie music label), Fuse (advertising and influencer marketing), Wybe (merchandising) and Zero (news aggregator).
The channel received the Golden Creator Award upon reaching one million subscribers on YouTube in 2019.[1][2]
The Karikku YouTube Channel received the Mazhavil Entertainment award 2019 for the Best Original Content (Digital) presented by Mazhavil Manorama.[3][4]
History
The YouTube channel Karikku was launched on 16 August 2016 by Nikhil Prasad.[5] Karikku uploaded its first video on April's Fools Day, 2018.
The channel's breakthrough came with the series Thera Para, which discusses the life of four young men in a very relatable manner, touching upon the day in the life of people around that age category.[6][7] The video was later converted to a single watch of Season 1 with some minor edits and re-released in 2020. A movie with the same name is currently in the pre-production phase and was announced through their YouTube channel as a motion poster.[8][9][10][11]
Its popularity grew rapidly throughout 2019, with the addition of new cast members and interesting plots.[12] Film actors Tovino Thomas (Gym Boys), Aju Varghese (Thera Para Season 1 Finale),[13] Rajisha Vijayan (Valentine's Day Gift) and Saniya Iyyappan (Thera Para season 1 Finale) made cameo appearances.[14]
They released a video in 2019 celebrating their new YouTube Silver Play Button, after crossing 100,000 subscribers (kittumo?), promoting more viewers to subscribe, as they aimed for the Golden Play Button.[15][16]
In 2020, after a small break due to the COVID-19 crisis and the resulting lockdown, Karikku gradually started to upload videos, beginning with an episode based on a video call, creating a spin-off of the episode Bhaskaran Pillai technologies .[17]
In collaboration with Netflix, karikku released a video titled Ripper - the wanted Killer on 3 April 2021. The Sketch is a promotion for the Malayalam motion picture Irul and was released on the official Netflix India YouTube channel.[18]
Mini YouTube-series and Videos
| Series | Director | Episodes | YouTube Channel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thera Para | Nikhil Prasad | 20 | Karikku |
| Plus Two Class | Nikhil Prasad | 6 | Karikku |
| Doosra | Nikhil Prasad | 3 | Karikku |
| Samarthya Shastram | Shyamin Gireesh | 6 | Karikku |
| DJ | Krishna Chandran | 2 | Karikku |
| Kalakkachi | Arjun Ratan | 2 | Karikku |
| Circus | Binoy John | 2 | Karikku |
| Bharati Apartments | KC | 3 | Karikku |
| Rock Paper Scissors Season 1 | Adithyan Chandrashekar | 8 | Karikku fliq |
| Scoot | Arjun Ratan | 8 | Karikku fliq |
| Rock Paper Scissors Season 2 | Shyamin Gireesh | 6 | Karikku fliq |
| Insomnia Nights | Thamby | 5 | Karikku fliq |
| Average ambili | Adithyan Chandrashekar | 6 | Karikku fliq |
| Better Half | Krishna Das Murali | 6 | Karikku fliq |
| Sebastiante Velliyazhcha | Sidharth K T | 5 | Karikku fliq |
| Jabla | Basil Gershome | 5 | Karikku fliq |
| Thenks | Binoy John | 2 | Karikku |
| Priyapettavan Piyush | Goutham Soorya | 6 | Karikku |
| Title | Director | Video length | Released on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veruppikkal Appappans | Nikhil Prasad | 13 minutes | 24 December 2018 |
| Mr. Pishuku Kumar | Nikhil Prasad | 12 minutes | 28 January 2019 |
| Valentine's Gift | Nikhil Prasad | 10 minutes | 14 February 2019 |
| Plus Two Free Period | Nikhil Prasad | 17 minutes | 14 April 2019 |
| PK | Nikhil Prasad | 27 minutes | 5 June 2019 |
| Bhaskaran Pillai Technologies | Nikhil Prasad | 21 minutes | 28 June 2019 |
| Gym Boys | Nikhil Prasad | 13 minutes | 20 August 2019 |
| Onam Sadhya | Nikhil Prasad | 15 minutes | 7 September 2019 |
| Arrangement Kalyanam | Jeevan Stephen | 20 minutes | 21 October 2019 |
| Bhaskaran Pillai from America | Nikhil Prasad | 14 minutes | 20 May 2020 |
| Smile Please | Jeevan Stephen | 25 minutes | 18 August 2020 |
| Thiruvonam | Nikhil Prasad | 24 minutes | 31 August 2020 |
| Ulkka | Jeevan Stephen | 31 minutes | 08 October 2020 |
| Family Pack | Anu K Aniyan | 30 minutes | 01 November 2020 |
| Happy Birthday | Jeevan Stephen | 40 minutes | 05 March 2021 |
| Ripper - The wanted killer | Nikhil Prasad | 17 minutes | 03 April 2021 on Netflix India YouTube channel |
| Star | Anu K Aniyan | 45 minutes | 21 August 2021 |
| Ringa Ringa Rosa (Single Watch) | Krishna Chandran | 30 min | 27 May 2022 |
| Tattadash | Benoy John | 33 min | 22 December 2023 |
References
- ↑ "Karikku owns 1 Million followers with just 30 uploads". The Times of India. 28 July 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ↑ "Christmas സമ്മാനവുമായി കരിക്കിന്റെ ജിഞ്ച". Zee News Malayalam (in Malayalam). 25 December 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ↑ "List of winners in Mazhavil Entertainment Awards 2019". Mazhavil Manorama. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ↑ "Mazhavil Entertainment Awards show winners revealed". MediaNews4U. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ↑ "Meet the creator of YouTube's viral 'MAD TECH' team". The Hindu. 2 August 2019. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ↑ S, Harikumar J. (22 October 2020). "'MAD TECH' special 'KUMILA VIDEO' is ruling over the hearts of Keralites". The Hindu.
- ↑ "KUMILA VIDEO". Madhyamam (Malayalam).
- ↑ "kumila video, the online sensation, gets a filmy makeover". The Times of India. 8 July 2019.
- ↑ tech-team-comes-up-with-kumila video-movie-motion-poster-trends-on-youtube--1.3941043 "'mad tech' team comes up with 'kumila video' movie; Motion poster trends on YouTube..." Mathrubhumi.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ↑ -video-movie.html "mad tech to try ot 'kumila video' film". Malayala Manorama.
{{cite news}}: Check|url=value (help) - ↑ "The epic kumila video to be made to into a movie. (Malayalam)". Madhyamam (Malayalam).
- ↑ "Quantum leap in Malayalam content on YouTube". The Hindu. 26 July 2019.
- ↑ "How chanchal s nair became Aswathy Achu in Kumila web series?". Mathrubhumi. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ↑ "Tovino joins other Mollywood stars to act a role in Karikku". Malayala Manorama. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ↑ "These guys are behind the popular online channel Karikku". OnManorama. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ↑ Although they never created a video celebrating the Golden Play Button after the channel crossed 1 million subscribers.
- ↑ "COVID-19: Popular social media stars in Kerala release comic shorts on the lockdown". The Hindu.
- ↑ "Malayalam content creator mad tech debut sketch video on Netflix grabs eyeballs".