What is "nadan"

Nadan (Malayalam : നടന്) is a 2013 Malayalam drama film directed by Kamal and written by S. Suresh Babu. Jayaram and Remya Nambeeshan play the lead roles, while the rest of the cast are former theatre artists that include K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Joy Mathew, P. Balachandran, Hareesh Peradi and Sasi Kalinga. It was produced by Anilkumar Ambalakkara under the banner of Ambalakkara Global Films. Nadan features some famous scenes from the famous Kerala People's Arts Club (K P A C) dramas Ningalenne Communistakki and Mudiyanaya Puthran.

Nadans (also referred as Nelamaikkarar and Real Nadar) are a small endogamanous group of aristocratic Nadars from the regions south of the Thamirabarani River. They were used to be invested as tax gatherers by the Nayaks and by the Pandyans before them. They also served as petty lords under the poligars. The Nadans possessed vast tracts of land and were one of the few subcastes among the Nadars to have practiced aristocracy. The term Nadan literally means lords of the soil. The Nadans claim that they are the descendants of ancient pandyan kings.

Nadan is a 2013 Malayalam drama film.

Nadan may also refer to:

• Nadan, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
• Nadan (Nadar subcaste), a group from the regions south of the Thamirabarani River in India
• Nadan v The King, a 1926 ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Canada
• Nadan Vidošević (born 1960), Croatian politician, businessman and entrepreneur
• Jambulinga Nadan ( fl. 1926–1927), brigand of the southern Madras Presidency
• Nanjil Nadan (born 1947), writer from Tamil Nadu, India