Oru Cheru Punchiri (English: A Slender Smile) is a 2000 Malayalam film written and directed by M. T. Vasudevan Nair.

This couple wake up to romantic mornings dense with sweet herbal aroma with the melodious music of birds as the background.

They make it clear that they would never surrender to the plea of their children coated in love, to sell the ancestral property in the village and move to the city with them.

The movie ends with Ammalukutty's decision to continue with this celebration of life even after the death of Krishna Kuruppu.

The film was shot on the banks of the Periyar River at Parappuran, Puthiyedam, Chowwara, Sreemoolanagaram, and Aluva in Kochi, India.