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1. 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

2. 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

3. Sukumari


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Sukumari was a legendary South Indian actress who was active in the industry for more than 50 years. She has acted in close to 3000 movies and several serials. Sukumari was facilitated with Padma Shri for her great contributions. She was married to late Dr.Bhim Singh and they have a son named Suresh. Suresh has also acted in a few films and is a doctor by profession. Sukumari passed away in the year 2013. Her death was a huge loss to the industry.

 

Sukumari was born in the year 1940 as the daughter of Madavan Nair and Satyabama Amma at Tamil Nadu. She started her dance training at a very young age and travelled all over India with her dance shows. Her debut movie was Oru Irav in Tamil. The journey whic...

Date of Birth: 06-10-1940
Date of Death: 26-03-2013
Age: 83
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress
Date of Birth: 06-10-1940
Date of Death: 26-03-2013
Age: 83
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

4. Niranjana


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Niranjana is an actress in Malayalam and Tamil cinema. She is from the Wayanad district of Kerala and studied at St.Catherine’s High School, where she took part in skit and drama shows. She initially wanted to be an IPS officer. She also has a Degree in Literature while studying in Business stream from Madras University. Niranjana has two sisters, one of whom is employed and the other is named Greeshma.

 

She was interested in acting from a young age. After applying for a casting audition she was selected for the role. Her family was very supportive. She moved to Chennai with her family soon afterwards. She speaks fluent Tamil, which she credits to watching Tamil movies throughout childhood. 

 

She has also done modeling. Her first Tamil film was th...

Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

5. Bhavana Menon


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Bhavana, a Malayalam Actress, was born in Thrissur, Kerala in the year 1986. by an acting bug at a very early age, this actress started her first movie at the mere age of sixteen while still studying. Her first movie in Malayalam she debuted was Nammal opposite Siddharth, Jishnu and Renuka Menon. This movie received great reviews and acclaimed awards in the cinema industry.   

Not only does she act in Malayalam movies, but she also acts in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films too. Language is no barrier, is the point which clearly comes out in her acting talent. Having shot to fame in her first movie, she started getting a lot of offers to act. 

The year 2010 saw her enter the Kannada movie industry where she acted in her first movie titled Jackie opposite Puneeth, directed by Duniya Soori. She plays the role ...

Date of Birth: 06-06-1986
Age: 37
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress
Date of Birth: 06-06-1986
Age: 37
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

6. 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

7. Blessy


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Blessy is a Malayalam film director and screenwriter who was earlier associated with veterans of film industry such as Padmarajan and Lohithadas and was an assistant director to both of them. Blessy got his first break as a director and screenwriter in the movie ‘Kaazcha’ in 2004. It was his debut movie which depicted Mammootty as a film operator who tours the countryside with his 16 mm projector and shows his films at festivals and functions. The film also dealt with an orphaned boy who was a victim of Gujarat earthquake and meeting Mammootty changes his life. This film fetched him Kerala State Film Awards. The biggest asset of Kaazcha is the story, and screenplay by Blessy and even Mammootty proved that no other actor can match up to his skills of acting in such roles. He was ...

Date of Birth: 03-09-1963
Age: 60
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 03-09-1963
Age: 60
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

8. M. G. Radhakrishnan


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Born on 29 July 1940, in Alappuzha district, Kerala, Malabar Gopalan Nair Radhakrishnan (M.G. Nair) is a classical music director and even a vocalist, who is considered as a senior most musician in Malayalam movies. . His father was a renowned music composer and harmonium player and mother was a Harikatha exponent. His brother M.G. Sreekumar is an eminent playback singer in Malayalam cinema and his sister K. Omanakutty is a renowned vocalist too. Malabar Gopalan Nair was a classmate of renowned singer K. J. Yesudas. 

Gopalan’s journey began as a composer in Akashvani  in Trivandrum. Soon he joined All India Radio as a music composer and was given a chance to hold a 15-minute program in AIR, which became a favorite. He forayed into musical...

Date of Birth: 29-07-1940
Date of Death: 02-07-2010
Age: 83
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Music Director
Date of Birth: 29-07-1940
Date of Death: 02-07-2010
Age: 83
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Music Director

9. Sreenivasan


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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 he had joined films to become an actor, he had never felt he could take up the job of script writer...

Date of Birth: 06-04-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 06-04-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

10. 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

11. 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

12. Nedumudi Venu


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Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is commonly known as Kesavan Venu Gopal. His parents are PK Kesavan Nair and Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi Alappuzha in Kerala. He had four siblings, all brothers. His father was a schoolmaster. Nedumudi completed his primary education at NSS Higher Secondary School and St Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam. During school days, he was interested in music and arts.

He graduated from Sanatana Dharma College in Alappuzha. After graduation, he started his career as a journalist and also worked as a teacher in a tutorial institute. While staying in Trivandrum, he became friends with Padmarajan, Bharath Gopi, Aravindan which made him expose his talent and enter into the domain of movies. In his married life with TR Sushil...

Date of Birth: 22-05-1948
Date of Death: 11-10-2021
Age: 75
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Actor
Date of Birth: 22-05-1948
Date of Death: 11-10-2021
Age: 75
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Actor

13. Venu Arvind


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Venu Arvind, or commonly known as Venu Aravind, is a Tamil TV and film actor, stage artist, dubbing artist and director. He was born on November 9, 1965, and studied B.Sc Physics with Masters in Management at DG Vaishnav College located at Chennai, Tamil Nadu. However, he rather chose media as his interest. He comes from a conservative family, but his parents gave their blessings and even encouraged him to do his best. He was married to Shobha.

Venu played as a child artist in Tuesday plays for DD right from 1975. He did many serials for DD such as ‘Alai Osai’, and ‘Rishimoolam’. Venu learned acting through Poornam Viswanathan’s theatre group during college. Venu became popular for appearing in K. Balachander’s serials and he became famous for his role as Chitti Babu in ...

Date of Birth: 09-11-1965
Age: 58
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Date of Birth: 09-11-1965
Age: 58
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil