Karikku

The YouTube channel Karikku was launched on 16 August 2016 by Nikhil Prasad.^[5] Karikku uploaded its first video on April's Fools Day in 2018.^[6]

The channel's breakthrough came with the series Thera Para, which discusses the life of four young men in a very relatable manner, touching upon the day in the life of people around that age category.^[7][8] The video was later converted to a single watch of Season 1 with some minor edits and re-released in 2020. A movie with the same name was announced through their YouTube channel as a motion poster but was cancelled due to pandemic. ^{[9][10][11][12]}

Its popularity grew rapidly throughout 2019, with the addition of new cast and crew members and interesting plots.^[13] Film actors like Tovino Thomas (Gym Boys), Aju Varghese (Thera Para Season),^[14] Rajisha Vijayan (Valentine's Day Gift) and Saniya Iyyappan (Thera Para) made cameo appearances.^[15]

They released a video in 2019 celebrating their new YouTube Silver Play Button, after crossing 100,000 subscribers, promoting more viewers to subscribe, as they aimed for the Golden Play Button.^[16][17]

In 2020, after a small break due to the COVID-19 crisis and the resulting lockdown, Karikku gradually started to upload videos, beginning with an episode based on a video call, creating a spin-off of the episode Bhaskaran Pillai technologies .^[18]

In collaboration with Netflix, karikku released a video titled Ripper - the wanted Killer on 3 April 2021. The Sketch is a promotion for the Malayalam motion picture Irul and was released on the official Netflix India YouTube channel.^[19]

Karikku announced their first feature film in October 2025 and expected to be released by following year.^[20][21]

Thera Para is a 2018 Malayalam mini web series created by Nikhil Prasad for Karikku.^[39] The web series revolves around the lives of four energetic young men and their struggles to become successful.^[40] The main four characters - George, Lolan, Shibu and Shambu are roommates. Three of them are unemployed and B.Tech graduates. Shibu is the only one who is employed in the group. The series lasted for 20 episodes. The first episode titled Ithaanu Avastha (Transl. This is the situation) was released on 21 July 2018 and the last episode - Ivide theerunilla (Transl. It doesn't end here) on 23 March 2019.^[41] After the season finale, on 7 July 2019, the Karikku team announced their decision to produce a movie - Thera Para - The Movie by sharing a motion poster on YouTube.^[42]

The story revolves around four friends. George is an unemployed BTech graduate. Lolan is having an affair with Ashwathy Achu online. Shambu is a tech genius. Shibu, 12th pass-out but the only employed one and takes care of the other three. They face many problems but still find a way to get rid of it.

Guest appearances included:

• Aju Varghese as Adv. Prahlad Iyyer^[43]
• Saniya Iyappan as Aswathy "Achu"^[44]