There lived a wrestler) is a 1981 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written, edited and directed by P. Padmarajan.
The film is a folk parable about the success and failure in the life of a gatta gusthi wrestler in Kerala.
It represented India in the competitive section at the Nantes Three Continents Festival-1983[5] in France (22nd to 29th November 1983).
Patronized by a village tailor, a gatta gusthi wrestler becomes a local hero when he defeats all his opponents and claims the prettiest woman as his wife.
A frog gigging neighbour youth is entrapped by the girl's mother to marry her conceived daughter.