was born in the year of 1917. He was born at Irinjalakuda in Thrissur district, Kerala, to a hereditary Kutiyattam family. He learnt the art under his uncles A. Chachu Chakyar and I. Madhava Chakyar, and Bhagavatar Kunjunni Tampuran of Kodungallur Kovilakam. Associated as a performer with the Kutalmanikkam temple in his home town, he perfected all the major Kutiyattam characters, and prepared attaprakaras i.e. acting manuals of a few plays and acts that the genre had lost. After teaching at Kerala Kalamandalam and Margi in Thiruvananthapuram, he established the Ammannur Chachu Chakyar Smaraka Gurukulam i.e. Irinjalakuda as a training school in his uncle`s memory, and became the central instructor for the Sangeet Natak Akademi`s project to preserve Kutiyattam.
Ammannur Madhava Chakyar died in 2008 at the age of 92.
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