Beena Paul
Sreeja Ravi
Sujatha Mohan
Praveena
G P Ramachandran
SB Satheesan
Venu Isc
Vidyasagar
Vikram Gaikwad
C. N. Karunakaran
P. T. Kunju Muhammed
Murali Menon
V. Dakshinamoorthy
Yusufali Kechery
Samir Chanda
Murali Malayalam
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Shyamaprasad
Ilaiyaraaja
Sreenivasan
K J Yesudas
Thilakan
1. Beena Paul
Born in 1961, Beena Paul is a renowned film editor of the Indian Cinema. She has given her contribution in ‘Malayalam’ films mainly. She was brought up in the city of ‘Delhi’ by her father A P Paul, who is a ‘Malayali’, and her mother, Sharada Paul, who is a ‘Kannada’. She had graduated in the field of ‘Film Editing’ from ‘Film and Television Institute of India’, which is located in ‘Pune’. ‘Venu Isc’, the famous Director, and Cinematographer is her better half. Both of them have won numerous awards for their films.
Beena Paul also holds the position of an Artis...
2. Sreeja Ravi
Sreeja Ravi is one of the most prominent veteran in the world of Indian dubbing artists. Lending her voice to more than a thousand film for the last three decade,is an excellent linguistic who knows several languages such as English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, and Kannada. Her voice was also expended for various commercial advertisements as well.Her voice, described as bewitchingly sweet, mirthful and jovial, is quite versatile. She has the extraordinary talent of shifting from one type of voice to another with ease.
Her father, Kunjukuttan, was a mechanical engineer and her mother, Kannur Narayani, was a famous theater actor and dubbing artist. Her family consist of her ...
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
3. Sujatha Mohan
Sujatha Mohan (Sujatha or Baby Sujatha) is one of the most prolific singers after S. Janaki, P. Susheela, and K.S. Chitra. She has sung nearly 10,000 songs in many Indian languages and has performed over 5000 live concerts in her career. She came to spotlight while singing songs with K.J. Yesudas in musical concerts. This fetched her recognition, and she got her first break as a playback singer when she was in the sixth standard.
Sujatha’s debut was in the year 1975 when she sang for a Malayalam movie ‘Tourist Bungalow.' She then sang for two other movies ‘Kamam Krodham Moham’ (music composer Shyam) and ‘Aparadhi&rsq...
Age:
61
Gender:
Female
Age:
61
Gender:
Female
4. Praveena
Praveena is a noted Malayalam actress featured in numerous Malayalam movies, TV serials, reality shows and TV commercials. Praveena is a very famous and popular actress among the audiences and she is best known to her fans and audiences for her mesmerizing smile. Praveena has also participated and featured in numerous ad campaigns and TV commercials for many popular brands like KSFE, Aqua water purifier, Immanuel silks, Nirapara, etc. Praveena had also featured in various TV serials such as Megham, Swapnam, Mounam, Mohakadal, Vadu, Ullkkadal, Adi Parasakhthi on Surya TV, Sun TV, Asianet, Star Vijay, etc. She anchored Swaptaswarangal, a musical show which was aired on Doordarshan. Praveena ha...
Age:
46
Gender:
Female
Age:
46
Gender:
Female
5. G P Ramachandran
GP Ramachandran is a well-known Malayalam movie critic. Ramachandran was born in 1963. He was the son of AP Narayanan and GP Devaki. He attended St. Xavier's UP School in Peruvayal, Devagiri Savio High School, and Devagiri College. He has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in Malayalam literature and language. GP Ramachandran has written hundreds of articles in Malayalam magazines. For more than three decades, he had been in the field of cinema criticism. In 2006, he received the President's Gold Medal for Best Critic at the 54th National Film Awards. Aside from books like the 1998 State Government Film Award-winning Film and Life of a Malayalee (SPCS), the 2009 State Government Film Award...
6. SB Satheesan
SB Satheesan is a Malayalam singer. Satheesan spent his childhood in Chemboor, Venjaramoodu, Kerala. He opened his career as a tailor. He owns a tailoring shop named S.B. Stitchings at Chembur. He was introduced to the Malayalam film industry by producer Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
The first film in which he functioned as a costume designer was Kathapurushan, released in 1995. Films in which he has worked are Ring Master, it got released in 2014 and was directed by Rafi Martin; Ennum Eppozhum, the 2015 movie was produced by Sathyan Anthikad; Mili was released in 2015 and was produced by Rajesh Pillai; Motorcycle Diaries, the movie was released in 2016 and was dir...
7. Venu Isc
Venugopal, also called Venu, is an Indian director, writer, and cinematographer. He predominantly works in the Malayalam industry. Venu is a founder member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), the first-ever in India.
Venu was born on August 26th, 1961 as the grandson of Karur Neelakanta Pillai, a Malayalam literature writer and founder of the Sahithya Pravarthaka Society. Venu’s mother, B. Saraswathy, is also a famous writer who has authored Indulekha. He married Beena Paul on August 26th, 1983. She is a film editor from the Mollywood industry. The couple has a daughter, Malavika. She works as the Outreach Programme Manager at the prestigious Cambridge University.
Venu graduated from the pres...
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
Age:
62
Gender:
Male
8. Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar is an Indian Playback Singer, Composer, Music Director, Record producer Music director, Arranger, Keyboardist, and Keyboard Programmer with a melodious voice. The particular contributions of the talented Singer and music Editor came in the south Indian movies. He has the unique ability to play all kinds of instruments, particularly Keyboard, piano, guitar, vocal. He has worked dominantly in the Indian Film industry and keeps coming up with some gratifying work. Vidyasagar was born in a Telugu musical family, as the son of a self-led musician and music composer Ramachander, and Sooryakantham. He is also known as "Gaanaa" Vidyasagar, and he is an Indian composer, musician, and singer who is best known ...
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
Age:
61
Gender:
Male
9. Vikram Gaikwad
Vikram Gaikwad is an Indian makeup artist. He has worked in several movies like including Bollywood as well as other regional cinemas. He has won the National Film Award for best makeup artist twice for the Bengali film Moner Manush in 2010, also for his work and creativity in the Marathi film Balghandharva.
‘Dirty film’ released in 2011 factored in towards winning that prize. He is also known for a cameo role in the Marathi film Tukaram and Lokmanya Ek Yugpurush. Moreover, he is a screamingly talented, makeup artist. His works evoke “wow” from his audience and other people....
10. C. N. Karunakaran
C. N. Karunakaran was a painter born in 1940. He is a native of Brahmakulam in Thrissur District of Kerala. He was the Chairman of the Kerala Lalitakala Academy. Karunakaran has received degrees in painting and design from the Government School of Arts and Crafts, Madras. He completed his schooling under the guidance of the renowned artists K. C. S. Paniker and D.P. Roy Choudhari. He died in Kochi on December 14th, 2013 following a period of brief illness. After completing his education, Karunakaran worked as an art director and made ad movies in Chennai. In 1970, he came back to Kochi to take responsibility of Kalapeetom (Kerala Institute of Arts). He was a renowned artist of that time. He is the founder of "Chitrakoodam;" the...
Date of Death:
14-12-2013
Gender:
Male
11. P. T. Kunju Muhammed
P. T. Kunju Muhammed is a producer and director who mainly works in Malayalam industry. His debut film name was Magrib. At the state level, Kunju has won many awards for his contribution to the industry. He was born in Pancharamukku which is near to Chavakkad in Thrissur which is a district in Kerala.
He is also a politician. He went to St. Thomas College which is situated in Thrissur to complete his degree of graduation in mathematics. Kunju Muhammed has produced and directed many movies like Paradeshi which was released in the year 2007, Garshom released in the year 1998, Veeraputhran released in the year 2011, and much more. All these movies were appreciated and had bag...
Gender:
Male
12. Murali Menon
Murali Menon is a senior actor who is known for his acting. He is active in the Malayalam film industry. He has been in the film industry and has been a part of many other film industries. His first known movie was Bhavum. The movie, Bhavum, had the star cast of Mita Vasisht, Murali Menon, and Jyothirmayi in the lead.
The movie was directed as well as written by Satish Menon. The film, Bhavum, was released in the year 2004. Murali Menon played the role of Joy in the movie. Bhavum was the first movie in which Murali Menon was the lead. Murali’s first appearance on screen was with Samudaayam.
The movie, Samudaayam, was released in the year 1995. The movie was directed by Ambili. Murali Menon played a supporting charac...
Gender:
Male
13. V. Dakshinamoorthy
He is popularly known as “Swami” (9th December 1919 – 2nd August 2013) were the maestro of Carnatic music and director & composer of Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi films, chiefly in Malayalam films. He has created songs for more than 125 films. He has almost composed 859 songs over a time span of 64 years.Universally known as Swami, he was influential in classical music- based film songs. In the Malayalam music industry, he has guided many of the renowned singers/composers of current times. Dakshinamoorthy was born on 9 December 1919. Dakshinamoorthy was the son of D. Venkateswara Iyer and Parvathi Ammal in Alappuzha district, Kerala.
He was the eldest child among his two brothers and four sisters. His mother d...
Date of Death:
02-08-2013
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
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Date of Death:
02-08-2013
Age:
104
Gender:
Male
14. Yusufali Kechery
Yusuf Ali Kechery was an Indian poet, director, film lyricist, and film producer from Kerala, who was born on May 16th, 1934. He was one of the most known poets of the of Malayalam poetry and received numerous awards including Kerala Sahitya Academy Award, Odakkuzhal Award, and Vallathol Award. Yusuf was born in 1934 in Trichur district of the City of Cochin. After getting his Bachelor's degree in Arts and Law, he began his career journey as a freelance writer and lawyer. Professor KP Narayana, who was a highly regarded scholar, was Yousuf’s Sanskrit teacher and taught him without any fee for four years.
Yusuf is remembered as one of the leading poetry artists of the Malayalam Poetry. Some of his significant poetry work...
Date of Death:
21-03-2015
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
15. Samir Chanda
Samir Chanda was a popular Indian director and production designer, who was born in 1957. He worked in the Indian cinema industry, including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali. He was well-known for his work in movies like Yoddha (1992), Dil Se (1998), Omkara (2006), Rang De Basanti (2006), Guru (2007), and Raavan (2010).
Samir also directed a Bengali movie, Ek Nadir Galop (2008) featuring popular actor Mithun Chakraborty. It went ahead as the Indian entry for the African, Latin American and Asian Competition segment of the International Film Festival of India’s 38th edition, in Goa. Samir was given the National Film Award for Best Direction (Art) four times, which include Shyam Benegal directed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose...
Age:
66
Gender:
Male
16. Murali Malayalam
Murali is a well-known Malayalam film actor who has also acted in Tamil films. Murali pocketed a National Award for playing the role of a communist freedom fighter in the 2002 movie, “Neythukaran.” Murali is considered to be one of the best actors to have blessed Malayalam cinemas and is revered for his character portrayals of playing the lead as well as the villain in his films. Murali was also the chairperson of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy. Murali was a staunch supporter of the Communist Party of India and was the director of Malayalam Communications, which was driven by the Party. Besides cinema, Murali was also a theater actor. Murali was born to Krishna Pillai and Dev...
Date of Death:
06-08-2009
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
06-08-2009
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
17. M. T. Vasudevan Nair
M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned writer and director. He is famous for Kadavu, Oru Vadakkan Veergatha, and several other movies. He has written about 54 screenplays for movies and did direction for about seven movies. He has been rewarded by several awards for his direction, screenplay and for his novels.
Nair was born on 9 August 1933, in a small village of Kudallur in Kerala. Vasudevan won his first award at the age of 20 when he wrote a short story in Malayalam for Best Short Story Writing Competition held by The New York Herald Tribune in 1953.
Nair penned down his first novel Naalukettu in 1958 and won the prestigious Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Since then he has written about eight novels, eightee...
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
18. Shyamaprasad
Shyamaprasad is an eminent screenwriter, director, and actor in Malayalam cinema. Although he had made a very few films, his art and meaningful cinema has always had a sweet flavor. His notable films include ‘Agnisakshi’, ‘Akale’, ‘Arike’ and ‘Ore Kadal’. He always made his movies based on some novels. Novels had inspired him a lot, and he tried to create a literary masterpiece in celluloid.
Since film and novels are two different media, hence he always had urged people not to compare his films with the novel as he had tried to be as close in spirit to the work which inspired him a lot. For instance, ‘A...
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
Age:
63
Gender:
Male
19. Ilaiyaraaja
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.
He was also the first Asian to organize a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and became the first Indian to compose a complete symphony. He has won three for Best Music Direction and one for Best Background score. He h...
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
Age:
80
Gender:
Male
20. Sreenivasan
Actor Sreenivasan is a Malayalam actor who had ruled the regional cinema graph for over 25 years and has earned the credit of having acted in over 200 films so far. But he never attributes his success even once for the quantity of films that he had done so far. He is an actor who lacked star appeal always. Instead of relying on his looks, he concentrated more on his talent that helped him carve a niche in Mollywood. He could perform any character on screen whether it is a villain role or a comedy role which drew a parallel recognition when compared with the ranks of superstars.
His comedy role gave Malayalam cinema some of its finest films. Though...
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
Age:
68
Gender:
Male
21. K J Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas shortly called as K J Yesudas is an exceptional Carnatic singer and playback singer in Indian Cinema. Born on Jan 10 in 1940, he is fondly called as Gana Gandharvan and Dasettan. He has set a record of recording more than 60,000 songs. He is born in a Roman Catholic family, in Kochi. His father was a great classical Malayalam musician. His first song was Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham (music: M B Sreenivasan) recorded on 14 November 1961. This song is so close to Yesudas, that he signs it even today very often in any of the concerts. His journey started with this song. He got his first hit through a movie Bharya under the music direction of G. Devarajan. He made hu...
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
22. Thilakan
Surendranatha Thilakan, more popularly known as Thilakan was one of Malayalam cinema’s most prominent actors. He was one of the few actors who was awarded a Padma Bhushan (India’s highest Civilian Award), and was affectionately called Perumthachan (Master Craftsman) of the Malayalam Cinema industry.
Born on the 15th of July, 1935 in Ayroor, Travancore, Kerala, he began his acting career as a thespian when he left intermediate college mid-way to pursue this career as a fulltime option in 1956. Having formed a troupe with a few friends, called the Mundakayam Nataka Samithy, he performed at various venues including the Kerala People’s Arts Club till 1966, followed by sessio...
Date of Death:
24-09-2012
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
24-09-2012
Age:
88
Gender:
Male
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