Vishu Festival is a Malayalam festival that represents the Kerala New Year. It falls in the month of April and is generally celebrated on 14th April and is celebrated on the first day of the Malayalam calendar, month of Medam that is April or May in Kerala.

The divine Vishukani is offered on this day. Generally Vishukani is offered to Guruvayoorappan or Lord Krishna. The Kani is a Malayalam word which means that which is seen first on this day. The women take a large dish made of bell-metal known as uruli, arrange in it a manuscript of palm-leaf called grantha, a gold ornament, a new cloth, some flowers from the Konna Tree called Cassia fistula, some coins in a silver cup, a split coconut, a cucumber, some mangoes and a jack-fruit. The two burning lamps are placed on either side of the dish with a chair facing it.

On Vishu Day family members are blindfolded and are taken to that place and then their blindfolds are removed to view Vishu Kani. They first of all look at the image of Gods, and then look at the yellow light of the lamps. Lastly they look at the kani in the yellow vessels. They believe that by doing this will bring good fortune in their lives. People wear new clothes and elders of the family distribute tokens of money called as Vishukkaineetam to the servants, tenants and children.