Malayalam Movie Review Clint - Cast & Crew

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

Rima is one of the gifted actors of the industry.  She is a trained dancer, model and an actor who works majorly in Malayalam cinema. She participated in the Miss Kerala contest in 2008 and finished as the first runner-up. Since then, she was driven to take up acting as her career. She debuted in Mollywood in 2009, with “Ritu” and later was also seen in “Neelathaamara.”

Akshara Kishore (baby Akshara) is the darling child of Malayalis. She was born in a family of working parents. His father works as an architect, and her mother is a bank employee in Kannur. She has a sister named Akhila Kishor. She is well known for her role as Balachandrika in the series Karuthamuthu on Asianet.

Hari kumar is an Indian director and film script writer. His works of direction are generally seen in the Mollywood or Malayalam film industry. His career in the Malayalam cinema industry spans almost more than thirty years. He has won many nominations and awards for his works, even at international fests. He started his career as a director in the year 1981 with the film Aambalppoovu. He also was a part of the story writing team of the movie. The film Snehapoorvam Meera released in the year 1982. For this movie, he did the direction, story, and screenplay.

Gokulam Gopalan has been named as A.M Gopalan, was born on 23rd July in the year 1944 in Vadakara, Kerala, India. He belongs to a decent family with father Chathu and mother Madhu. Gopalan has a wife and three children named Baiju Gopalan, Lijisha Gopalan, and Shabareesh Gopalan. Gopalan is an Indian film industry, film distributor and businessman. He preferably works in the Malayalam film industry. Gopalan acted in two films named Netaji and Client in the year 2017 and 2019 respectively. Gopalan was appointed as the leader of Sree Narayana Dharma Vedi and also as the president of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam.

Madhu Ambat was born on 6th March 1949 to Prof. K Bhagyanath and Smt. Ambat Sulochana. The Ambat family was an incredible group of individuals, with a father that quit being a professor to pursue his love for magic as full time career and a sister who grew up to be an incredible actress. Not only this, his younger sister, Vidhubala went on to become a leading actress in the Malayalam film industry. In a time when everybody was focused on getting into good colleges and getting well-paid jobs as soon as possible, Mr. Ambat was lucky to have a family that believed that he deserved to love what he did. So, despite extreme pressure, he went to the renowned Pune Film Institute. He had also got admitted into IIT, but instead decided to go the other way.

Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with symphonic orchestration.

Prabha Varma is a veteran journalist, poet, and anchor. He was born on 24th July 1959 at Kadapra, Thiruvalla. His parents were T.K Narayan Namboothiri and N. Pankajakshi Thampuratty. An award-winning literati who got his primary education from Devasworm Board College, Parumala , and his degree of Master in English from NSS Hindu College and LL.B from Kerala Law Academy.  He was a political enthusiast since his college day. During the emergency in 1975-77, he was an active member of Student Federations of India, a youth wing of CPI (Marxist).

Born on the 22nd of September, 1987, Unni Mukundan is the son of M Mukundan Nair and Roji Mukundan. He was born in Villadom in Trichur, but grew up in Ahmedabad. Unni made his foray into the film industry after the completion of his Plus Two in commerce, and is currently pursuing his B.A. in English from the Prajyothi Nietan College, Thrissur. Unni is a firm believer in having a good education, and is usually found to be busy with his classes when he is not shooting for his movies, even quoting “I believe that I am in a space where I can fix my dates”, showing his confidence in his ability, and also in his belief that a good education is absolutely essential.

Known as the “Muscle Aliyan” of M-Town, Unni made his debut in the Tamil movie Seedan in 2011, which was an adaptation of the Malayalam Nandanam, as the main lead. His debut Malayalam movie was Bombay March 12 alongside the veritable Mammootty. He also played a supporting role in Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty.

His versatility saw him reprise roles in movies such as Ezham Suryan, Bangkok Summer. He also played the title role in Mallu Singh alongside Kunchacko Boban, which turned out to be a box office hit. His other movies include Theevram, I Love Me, Ithu Pathiramanal, D Company, Orissa, The Last Supper, Rajadhi Raja and Vikramadhityan.

He has gained popularity for his role in Vikramadhityan, where he plays the role of the son of a cop and is placed against Dulquer Salman who plays the role of the son of a thief. Both the boys become classmates in school and the movie then proceeds to show their journey into adulthood.

For his role in Bombay March 12, Unni won several awards including the Asianet Film Award: Best New Face of the Year 2011, the Asiavision Movie Awards: 2011 Best New Face of the Year, The Jaihind TV Best Newcomer of the Year 2011, the Amritha TV Best Debut Award  and the South Debut Actor for South Indian International Movie Awards.

Joy Mathew has various feathers to his cap; he is an actor, director, writer and a political persona. But he is very humble in this real life. Hailing from an upper-class Christian family he had his initial days in Kozhikode. He initially joined Pune Film Institute but later opted for post graduation in Mass Media and Journalism. But films always remained his passion. 

Born on 20th September 1961, Joy Mathew hails from Challissery, Thrissur. Joy Mathew’s films reflect his childhood days and fervent association with left-wing politics. He believes in giving equal treatment to everyone. Joy Mathew is an optimist and is service-minded. He has great passion towards theatre and films. Joy Mathew’s input to Malayalam theatre is indeed commendable. He has appeared in some movies too. Joy rocked the Malayalam film industry during the 80s. 

Joy Mathew has donned the role of a main villain in the biggest 2013 grosser-Amen. The flick Shutter is his debut directorial venture and it received great critical acclaim. This film gained international recognition and was bestowed with several honours. This movie was also well received by the audience. 

The 1986 flick Ammaye Kanan, in which John Abraham wielded the megaphone, had Joy donning the lead role. This film was lauded critically and it was adjudged as one of the best Indian films by British Film Institute. Then Joy was in a sabbatical for 27 years and re-entered the industry in 2013 and he donned the role of supporting actor as well as director. He has a distinction of working in 14 movies in 2013 and this indeed a commendable achievement. 

Sangeeta Nataka Academy and Kerala Sahitya Academy felicitated him for a couple of his plays. Athirthikkal, Pretoria-October 18, Sankadal and Chille 73 are some of his commendable endeavors as a playwright. Joy Mathew took vigorous involvement in some cultural groups. The Campus Theatre Movement is his foundation which was started in 1980. His contribution to Malayalam plays is over 20.

A firebrand script-writer, actor, director, and producer, that’s Renji Panicker for you. He made his debut with movie ‘Bhattacharya IPS’ in 2005. He started his career as a journalist after getting his post graduate degree in it. He, with Shaji Kailas, has given gem of movies to the Malayalam industry. He is also the managing director of the Malayalam newspaper Metrovarthaa. He was born on 21 January 1958 to Keshava Panicker and Laalamani at Nedumudi, Alleppey.

Salim Kumar is a person who deserves the title of a film legend. He was born on 1969 in Kerala to parents Gangadharan and Kausalya. He has worked in nearly two hundred and fifty films, mostly in Malayalam and is a very popular public figure in Kerala. He did his higher education in BA from Maharajas College in Ernakulam, which has a reputation for nurturing budding artists. During his course at Maharajas, he had won the University title for mimicry three years in a row.

Vinay Forrt, the Malayalam actor, was born in 1983 as Vinay Kumar in Kochi in Kerala. His parents are M. V. Mani and Sujatha. He has two siblings, Suma, a sister and Shyam, his brother. Vinay did his primary education in Boys School in Fort Kochi. During his first year graduation, he joined Lokadharmi theatre and started acting in the plays. Vinay has an experience of ten plus years in the theatrical activities. He is a postgraduate in acting and got his degree from Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. Vinay was honored as the Best Senior Theatre Actor and received the scholarship from Government of India in 2004 to 2006. He made his debut in “Ritu,” in 2009. He got the opportunity to shine in the cinema by Shyamaprasad. Though he did a small role in “Ritu,” he was noted by the audiences well. Vinay is a classical dancer too.

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