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1. Meera Jasmine


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Born on 15th February 1982, Meera Jasmine belongs to Kerala. She did B.sc. In zoology from Assumption College, Changanassery. She is a bright name in the Malayalam film industry, very well known for her role in ‘Soothradharan’ released in the year 2001. Later she worked in films like ‘Gramaphone’, directed by Kamal and commercial hits and critically acclaimed projects like ‘Swapnakkoodu,' ‘Kasthoorima’ etc.  She received film fare for the movie as well.

The actress possesses the title of best actress given by National Film Award (2004) along with Kerala film award twice and Kalaimamani award from the government of Tamil Nadu.

Meera considers lohithadas, her debut director, as her god father and a fatherly figure. She gives all the credit of her success ...

Date of Birth: 15-02-1982
Age: 42
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress
Date of Birth: 15-02-1982
Age: 42
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

2. Nayanthara


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Nayantara also called as Nayanthara Kurian, is a renowned Indian actress from Kerala. She was born on 18th November in the year 1984 in Bangalore that is situated in Indian province Karnataka. Her actual name is ‘Diana Mariam Kurian’ the daughter of ‘Omana Kurian’ and ‘Kurian Kodiyatto’. Due to her father’s service, she stayed in several places of India. She joined in “Mar Thoma College” for attending her B.A in English Literature. Besides study she also initiated her modeling career.

As she was indifferent towards building her career in the film industry she denied her first offer, but at last she agreed to do the film ‘Manassinakkare’ where she was casted opposite Jayaram. This was a financially successf...

Date of Birth: 18-11-1984
Age: 39
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Movie Actress
Date of Birth: 18-11-1984
Age: 39
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Movie Actress

3. KS Chithra


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Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...

Date of Birth: 27-07-1963
Age: 60
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 27-07-1963
Age: 60
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

4. Sathyan Anthikad


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Sathyan Anthikad is a film director who has even tried his hands at writing lyrics. He also has been an eminent screenwriter in Malayalam movies. He has a long association with  Mohanlal, Jayaram, and even Mammootty. He has made 19 movies with Mohanlal, 17 movies with Jayaram, and eight movies with Mammootty. Hence, he has given the most successful movies in Kerala. He even tried to make some low-budget movies too and was moderately successful. He chose to direct ‘Pappan Priyappetta Pappan’ which was the 100th film of Mohanlal. 

In 2015 Sathyan’s much-awaited film ‘Ennum Eppozhum’ created a buzz in the industry as it had Manju Warrier and Mohanlal in the lead roles. He gave roles that suited their age in this movie...

Date of Birth: 03-01-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director, Lyricist
Date of Birth: 03-01-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director, Lyricist

5. M. Jayachandran


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M Jayachandran is an Indian musician, music composer, and singer; he works in Malayalam Film Industry. Jayachandran was born on 5th April 1971 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His parents are Madhusudhanan Nair and Sukumari Amma. He took his Electrical Engineering degree from TKM College of Engineering. On 12th November 1995, he got married to Priya. At the age of 5, he started his training in the Carnatic music from Attingal Harihara Iyer and then under Perumbavoor G Raveendranath.

Then for 18 years he studied the music under Neyyattinkara Mohanchandran. He has won the Carnatic vocal competition for four consecutive years from 1987 at the Kerala University Youth Festival. He made his debut as a playback singer in the movie ‘Vasudha’ released i...

Date of Birth: 14-06-1971
Age: 52
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Musician
Date of Birth: 14-06-1971
Age: 52
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Musician

6. Kalidas Jayaram


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Kalidas Jayaram was born on December 16th, 1993. He was born in Kerala, India. Kalidas began his acting career when he was just seven years old, and he took a break from the acting since 2003 till 2014 to focus on his studies. Kalidas is the son of the eminent Malayalam film actor Jayaram and an equally popular Parvathy.

He has a sister-Malavika Jayaram, and he resides with his family. Before he even began to act, He had lent his voice to a movie named ‘Friends’ in1999. He received his bachelor’s degree from Loyola college-A prominent educational institution in Chennai. He graduated in Visual Communication. He debuted his film career by acting in the 2000 film ‘Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal’ He was just seven year...

Date of Birth: 16-12-1993
Age: 30
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor, Dubbing
Date of Birth: 16-12-1993
Age: 30
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor, Dubbing

7. MG Sreekumar


07-08-2019/m.-g.-sreekumar.jpg M.G. Sreekumar is a playback singer from Malayalam cinema who had sung in many Indian languages. With a career of over 30 years, his melodious voice was considered as a substitute voice for actor Mohan Lal. In the 1980’s and 90's, he sang countless melodious songs that were lip-synched by Mohan Lal on the screen. He became a part of Mohanlal-Priyadarshan gang that helped him to be the official voice of Mohanlal. Later on after 2000, Sreekumar was distracted from playback singing for Mohan Lal as new playback singers were chosen to the voice of Mohan Lal. But it was again after many years the team of Priyadarshan- Mohanlal- MG Sreekumar, was back in another venture ‘Oru Marubhoomi Kadha’ in 2011. He was lucky to make a comeback as a playback singer with this movie for Mohan Lal and Priyardarshn. He was also lucky that his friends Priyadars...
Date of Birth: 25-05-1957
Age: 66
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer
Date of Birth: 25-05-1957
Age: 66
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer

8. Mohanlal


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Mohan Lal is the Super Star of the Malayalam film industry. He is the Son in Law of a famous producer cum veteran actor Balaji. Mohan Lal is married to Suchithra, the elder daughter of Balaji. Mohan Lal was born in the year 1960 in Elanthoor in Kerala. He is very popular for his natural acting and simplicity. The first movie, he committed was Thiranottam, but the first to release was Manjil Virinja Pookal. This movie had Poornima Jayaram as his pair and that is the debut movie in Malayalam for her too. Rajavinte Makan was the movie that made him to reach super heights. Mohan Lal is not choosey in particular character; but he acts in all types of film that give him a good performance scope.

Till now he did not show him as a Super Star. His humbleness is r...

Date of Birth: 21-05-1960
Age: 63
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 21-05-1960
Age: 63
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

9. Ranjith Balakrishnan


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A great Indian film director Mr.Ranjith Balakrishnan Nair was born on 4th September 1964 in Balussery Kerala. Apart from directing Malayalam Cinema he is also known for variegate aspects of filming like screen writer , producer as well as actor. Two of his most famous film ventures are “Thirakkatha “ and “Indian Rupee “that  won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film in Malayalam in 2008 and 2011 resp.

When he graduated from THE School  Of Drama And Fine Arts,Thrissur, he tried his luck at skits and t.v serials as an actor for Doordarshan. His debutant films were OruMaymasPulariyil . Later on he made his ingression by writing stories for a fun- adventure film directed by Kamal. The success of the story eventually lead to the commencement of omnifarious script writing for s...

Date of Birth: 04-09-1964
Age: 59
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 04-09-1964
Age: 59
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

10. S Kumar


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S. Kumar is an Indian cinematographer known for his work behind the camera for movies such as "Boeing Boeing", "Ayalvasi Oru Daridravasi", "Chithram", "One 2 Ka 4", "Kerala Café", "Pattalam", and among many others.

S. Kumar started his career in 1978 with the Ashok Kumar-directed low-budget film, "Thiranottam", featuring actors such as Ravi Kumar and Sattar. The early 80s saw Kumar as the cinematographer in the Ashok Kumar-directed "Thenum Vayambum", and in Priyadarshan’s comedy, "Poochakkoru Mookkuthi", which garnered recognition and catapulted his career. In 1985, Kumar did the camera work for the Priyadarshan-directed "Onnanam Kunnil Oradi Kunnil", the Shankar starrer "Akkare Ninnoru Maran&qu...

Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Cinematographer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Cinematographer