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Jai Shot (Pulikkathra Vallom)

(Introduction)

While the house boats of kerala has become synonymous with kerala tourism, snake boats symbolise our culture, tradition and the martial agility as well as the crowning glory of the vembamad lake.

The rythm of the boat song with its interspersed thi thi tha thi thei tho ..refrain is unparalleled in expressing the energy and communal harmony of central travancore It reflects the same beat of a kavyam Composed by ramapurathu varyar as an accompaniment to the rythm of the rowers. King marthanda varma was returning after his prayers at vaikom mahadevar temple and varyar composed the song to entertain the king on his return journey.

While the chundan vallams were reserved for thd dieties as palliodams it was the Ootees and iruttukuthis and the veppuvalloms that were used in war and by local land lords.

In the year ....one such boat was bought by maliyil.....from the famed boat makers in varappuzha and it was called pulickathra vallom.

It was used mainly used to transport womoen and goods fast from kottayam and alleppy through pirate infested marshes which were being modified in to huge paddy fields.

Competitions were held in champakkulam arammula thazhathangadi etc.

Nehru trophy introduced in....... Among all the boats that rode the waves a single boat caught both indiras and nehrus attention. They got up and pointed at pulikkathra vallom and said Look look it goes like a shot.

From then own the boat proudly took on the name ..

In.... competition was becoming intense and the brothers and sisters ..... who inherited the boat decided to do an extension.. It continued to win the races and maintain its reputation.

One more generation passed on and the boat was inherited by the next genetation.

A new partnership was formed to continue the tradition The boat is extended to the maximum rower capacity of 60 rower and 1...feet.

Best anjili, teak and poovarash were used and is worked on by the same family of boat builders.

Four generations of owners aligned with 4 generation of builders continued to improve the pulickathra vallom into the cheruchundan that is now fondly called "Jai Shot